Art Institute of Chicago to return looted Holocaust-era painting to family of persecuted art collector
The Art Institute of Chicago is returning the Cubist painting “Woman with a Fan” by French artist Jean Metzinger to the Lewenstein family, the institution announced Tuesday.The oil painting from 1913 was lost during a forced Nazi-era sale in the Netherlands. However, there were significant gaps in the painting’s historical record, said Jacques Schuhmacher, the museum’s executive director of provenance.The work resurfaced on the Dutch art market in the 1950s, moved through galleries in Paris and…
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