Ohio auction halted after two Schloss paintings are identified
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation identified two floral still lifes attributed to Ambrosius Bosschaert at Apple Tree Auction Center in Newark, Ohio. It traced them to the Schloss collection, looted during the Second World War. The auction house pulled the works after the foundation contacted it.
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