Heirs Sue Over Ownership of a Pissarro, Saying It Was Seized by Nazis
They claim that the painting, “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre,” was taken from their ancestors by the Nazis, and have filed a lawsuit in Atlanta to recover it.
A family claims that Pissarro’s “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre” was taken from their ancestors by the Nazis and auctioned off in 1935. They have filed a lawsuit in Atlanta to recover it.Credit.Lefevre Fine Art Ltd./Bridgeman Images
May 13, 2021
More than a dozen heirs of a Jewish couple who left Germany as Hitler rose to power have filed a lawsuit in Georgia seeking to recover a Pissarro painting said to have been part of an extensive collection of works seized by Nazis.
The biggest art con in NYC history: How a brazen $80M scam that fooled collectors with fake Pollock and Rothko masterpieces shook the art world and brought down Manhattan s oldest gallery
From around 1994 to 2009, over 60 fake pieces of art were sold for $80 million through Knoedler & Co. and a prominent art dealer in New York City
Established in 1846, Knoedler was one of Manhattan s most respected galleries
Long Island art dealer Glafira Rosales peddled what were supposedly masterpieces to Knoedler s Ann Freedman and dealer Julian Weissman
Rosales said the anonymous owner, the son of a Mr. X, had a trove of paintings from Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock