Time Running Out for Justice on Nazi-Looted Art
According to Gideon Taylor, president of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, it is time for Congress to pass the new HEAR Act and for museums to deliver provenance transparency.
Laurel Zuckerman, the heir of Paul and Alice Leffmann, a Jewish couple from Germany, brought a case in 2016 seeking the return of a Picasso painting, The Actor (1904), hanging in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Leffmanns entrusted the painting to a non-Jewish German acquaintance in 1938, while fleeing Nazi persecution, and later sold it under duress to finance their escape to Brazil.
The painting has been hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1952.
Zuckerman's claim was rejected by the courts, but Gideon Taylor emphasizes that it is not yet too late for museums to act.
Author's summary: Museums must act on Nazi-looted art restitution.
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