By Fern Smiley
In the recent Elizabeth Taylor court finding, she gets to keep her Van Gogh painting because basically the time is up for claimants, Now a venerable Foundation comprised of Concordia, McGill and Hebrew Universites has succeeded in getting their disputed painting to stay in one place and get a look see.
“A federal judge grants a request by the estate of a late Jewish Art Dealer to stop an elderly German baronness from further moving a painting that it says was looted by the Nazis."
Maria-Luise Bissonnette -- who now lives in Providence -- must also allow representatives from Max Stern's estate to inspect the painting."
Those are the orders today from Judge Mary Lisi.
The Canadian foundation that inherited Stern's estate filed a lawsuit in Providence last year to reclaim the painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The suit says the painting was auctioned under duress after the Nazis forced Stern to close a family gallery in 1937.
Bissonnette's stepfather acquired the painting and she later inherited it. She says her family did nothing wrong.
Lisi today said Bissonnette can not move the painting without first getting court permission.”
The MAX STERN story is poignantly told in a travelling exhibit titled Auktion 392 Reclaiming the Gallerie Stern, Dusseldorf
The Essay in the Website below beautifully recreates the exhibit:
http://www.auktion392.com/
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