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TWO items of news this week, thousands of miles apart, confirm that the art trade's latest headache isn't about to disappear any time soon. From New York, the law firm of Herrick Feinstein announced that the Israel Museum was to return a looted charcoal drawing by Degas to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a Dutch dealer who died fleeing the Nazis in 1940.
Larry Kaye, the attorney masterminding the restitution, also used the opportunity to reveal the following combative statistics: the number of Goudstikker pictures looted has now been established as 1,300; Herrick Feinstein has four fulltime researchers on the case; 500-plus photographs of missing works have been amassed; 60 pictures have been located in museums and private collections; 10 restitutions have already been made (of which, one from Britain - a Bassano).See the full content of this document
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Nazi Booty Turns Up ; Under the Hammer
My spies also tell me that a drawing by Egon Schiele, which Sotheby's sold in Lon...
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