Art restitution

Three Fédor Löwenstein paintings returned to the artist’s family

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Three Fédor Löwenstein paintings returned to the artist’s family
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France returned Les Peupliers, Arbres and Composition to Richard Brook, a relative of the Jewish Czechoslovak painter Fédor Löwenstein. The paintings were seized at Bordeaux while awaiting shipment to New York. Image: Composition, Centre Pompidou / Dist. RMN-GP.

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