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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Fine arts security

A Swiss Merchant of Death’s Nazi Friends and Suspicious Masterpieces

Subject: Art collector Emile George Buhrle in his gallery in Zurich, Switzerland. 1954
Paintings on top left going down row: Renoir's "Place de la Trinte", Van Gogh's "Flueres de Chataigner", Cezanne's "Le Garcon au Gilet Rouge", "Still Life" by Braque. Corot's "Sable et Chenes", Picasso's "Still Life with Lemons", Derain's "La Table", Degas's "Madame Camus au Piano."  1954
Photographer- Dmitri Kessel
Time Inc Owned
Merlin-1151952Still, as we’ve just celebrated the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis, it’s worth bearing in mind that while most plundered works of art have been recovered, about 100,000 are still missing, many of these thought to be held by museums in the U.S. and Europe that were perhaps less than fastidious when it came to tracking down their previous owners.