In view of the requirement of last month’s law Museum in New York A possible disagreement over a particular piece has come to light, according to a report, over the acceptance of art stolen by the Nazis.
In August, new York Gov. Cathy Hochul signed a law requiring museums to put up signs identifying pieces looted by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
According to a press release from the New York Department of Financial Services, it is estimated that 600,000 paintings were stolen from Jewish people during World War II.
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About 53 pieces of New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art identified by the museum as having been forcibly taken or sold by the Nazis, according to the museum’s website.
Despite the fact that those objects were returned to their rightful owners before being acquired by the museum, the Met will still keep the signs. Explaining its history, AP reported.
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Andrea Baer, the Met’s deputy director for collections and administration, told the AP: “People should be aware The appalling cost people were expropriated during the Second World War, and how the lives of these people they loved and were in their families were disrupted.”
An oil on canvas 1695 painting by Dutch artist Jan Weniks, “Gempies with a Dead Heron”—acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950—is on display at the museum. The painting is one of 53 works in the museum’s collection, once looted during the Nazi era, but returned to their designated owners before being acquired by the museum. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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The Met told the AP that he does not plan to put a sign on “The Actor,” A Painting by Picasso which was received as a gift to the museum in 1952.
The painting was owned by Jewish businessman Paul Lefman, who sold it to a Paris art dealer for $13,200 in 1938 as he was fleeing Germany.
In 2016, Leifman’s great-granddaughter, Laurel Zuckerman, sued the museum for $100 million because the painting was allegedly sold under duress, Reuters reported at the time.
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A court later dismissed the lawsuit, but Lawrence Kaye, one of the lawyers representing Zuckerman, told the AP that the Met still must publicly acknowledge the painting’s controversial past.
“I believe the law will cover this piece,” Kaye told the AP. “It was dismissed on a technicality and I believe it should be covered by what the statute means.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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