Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Dutch museums find 139 likely Nazi-looted artworks

This photo provided by Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, shows the 1921 painting Odalisque by Henri Matisse. Dutch museums have identified 139 pieces of art, including dozens of paintings, one by Matisse and many by Dutch painters of varying renown such as Impressionist Isaac Israels, as likely having been taken forcibly from Jewish owners. (AP Photo/Van Abbemuseum) AMSTERDAM (AP) — A major investigation into whether art hanging in Dutch museums may have once been Nazi loot has yielded an unexpectedly large result: 139 suspect works, including ones by masters like Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky.








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