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Disputed Kirchner Painting Finally Back On Display
"A garish painting of Berlin streetwalkers on the prowl, the subject of a bitter restitution case from the Nazi era, went on display at the museum that bought it for $38.1 million in frenzied bidding." The painting, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, was purchased by New York's Neue Gallerie after having hung for more than two decades in a Berlin museum. In 2006, it was returned to the heirs of the family that owned it prior to World War II, and put up for auction. Boston Globe 07/27/07
"A garish painting of Berlin streetwalkers on the prowl, the subject of a bitter restitution case from the Nazi era, went on display at the museum that bought it for $38.1 million in frenzied bidding." The painting, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, was purchased by New York's Neue Gallerie after having hung for more than two decades in a Berlin museum. In 2006, it was returned to the heirs of the family that owned it prior to World War II, and put up for auction. Boston Globe 07/27/07
Posted July 29, 2007 07:44 AM
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