Metropolitan Museum Of Art secretly Sold $70M Van Gogh Looted By Nazis In Attempted Cover-Up: Lawsuit
View Source | September 21, 2023 1:00 pm
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is being accused of “secretly” selling a Van Gogh masterpiece looted from Jews fleeing the Nazis — and trying to organize a cover-up designed to last for 100 years.
- The museum is being sued by a Jewish family who owned “The Olive Picking” before World War II and wants it back. It could be worth $70 million.
- The painting was bought by the Met in 1956 from Brooke Astor — the socialite who died at age 105 in 2007 — then sold secretly in 1972 and vanished from public view.
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