PARIS (Reuters) – France returned to its rightful owners on Thursday a painting by French master Henri Matisse which was seized by the Nazis in 1941 after its Jewish owner fled anti-Semitic persecutions in Germany. … In a story right out of the 2007 film, ” The Rape of Europa ,” the heirs and the painting were only paired after a German art historian made the connection using an internet…
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