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Friday, February 25, 2000 | return to: international
Israel Museum will give up Nazi-looted artwork
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- A masterpiece by Camille Pissarro taken by a Nazi and later bequested to the Israel Museum in good faith will, However, the museum announced last week, Gerta Silberberg of Britain has decided to let the oil painting remain on view at the m
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Recently opened East German records revealed the painting was auctioned in Nazi Berlin in 1935, and thereafter passed through various hands until it was purchased in 1960 by the late John and Frances Loeb of New York. It came to the Israel Museum in 1997 as a bequest of the Loebs.
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