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Worcester Telegram on MSN17h
Stolen Dutch master painting back in Worcester after nearly 47 years — to be shown at WAM
A 17th-century Dutch painting stolen from a private Worcester home in 1978 is back in the city and will soon be on display at ...
Pasadena Star-News6y
Will battle over Nazi-seized ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ be put to rest after Norton Simon Museum’s court victory?
separate life-size portraits of Adam and Eve by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, taken by the Nazis from a Jewish Dutch art dealer. The case stems from a 2007 lawsuit filed ...
Los Angeles Times8y
Court rules museum can keep Nazi-looted Adam and Eve masterpieces with a hidden past
Still, the Dutch government reached a settlement with Stroganoff-Scherbatoff that allowed him to acquire the paintings in 1966. Stroganoff-Scherbatoff then sold “Adam” and “Eve” to Norton ...
Pasadena Star-News10y
Ownership of Nazi-looted art ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum disputed
The Dutch art collector died in 1940 while fleeing the Nazis. And the paintings, done by Lucas Cranach the Elder, fell into German hands. During WWII “Adam” and “Eve” hung side-by-side on ...
Los Angeles Times9y
Nazi-looted-art case against Norton Simon Museum set for 2016 trial
Museum founder Norton Simon bought “Adam” and “Eve” in 1971 after they’d ... sale after Jacques Goudstikker, a noted Dutch-Jewish art dealer, fled for his life with his family as the ...
The Art Newspaper6y
Timeline: the legal battle over Cranach’s Adam and Eve
The Jewish collector and dealer Jacques Goudstikker buys the pair of paintings Adam and Eve (around 1530 ... of it was returned by the Allies to the Dutch authorities for restitution in 1946 ...
The Art Newspaper1y
Nazi-looted Dutch Golden Age painting returned to Goudstikker heir
Adam and Eve, attributed to the Dutch 16th-century artist Cornelis van Haarlem. courtesy Kaye Spiegler A painting looted by the Nazis during World War II from the collection of Jacques ...