Is this the culmination of ten years of proceedings with the State?
The heirs of the great art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) are said to be on the verge of recovering at least four master paintings, now kept at the Musée d'Orsay.
The first,
Still life with a mandolin
by Gauguin, is currently featured in the “Things” exhibition at the Louvre.
The other three:
Sous bois,
by Paul Cézanne,
Guernsey,
a navy by Renoir, and a sanguine by Renoir, are in reserve.
The four works in question were all found in 1945 in Germany, by the Allies, among 100,000 objects looted or sold during the Occupation.
A "complex, unique and new" scenario
On January 25, a new hearing must take place at the administrative court of Paris, which will oppose the heirs and assigns of Vollard, and the State.
Its outcome does not seem a mystery for the actors of the file: everything converges towards a restitution.
For the ten heirs, who had approached the Ministry of Culture in 2013, this would be a victory...
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