France restitutes a Max Pechstein painting found in a museum basement
Nudes in a Landscape was returned to the heirs of Hugo and Gertrud Simon. The painting was found in the basement of the Palais de Tokyo in 1966. Provenance researchers linked it to Hugo Simon, a German Jewish collector, but could not establish the entire route it took. Image: Centre Pompidou.
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