At the National gallery in London want to sue a portrait of Matisse
ARTinvestment.RU   24 ноября 2015

And it is not about restitution in favor of the heirs of Holocaust victims

At the National gallery in London want to sue a portrait by Henri Matisse. And it is not about restitution in favor of the heirs of Holocaust victims. Lawsuit one of the most famous museums in the world threaten the heirs of Greta moll model for the very portrait that became the Apple razdora@

"Portrait of Greta moll" was written by Henri Matisse to order her husband Oscar of the Mall. Mall wife met and became friends with the artist in 1908, in Paris, was a portrait painted. After decades of storage in the private collection of the national gallery bought it in his collection. It happened in 1979, two years after the death of Greta moll. Today the picture is placed in the vault of the Tate gallery, where the work provided by long-term lease from 1997 goda@

now, However, the heirs claim that the work was stolen and sold to the National gallery without the permission of the family. Allegedly a friend of the family Mall shortly after the war took a portrait of Matisse in Switzerland to save, then lost next paintings.  

"to return the picture, the moll family will go to any measures, including the filing of a lawsuit, says their lawyer, David Rowland (David Rowland). — We deal with a significant work of art that was stolen and now held in this famous Museum with a brilliant reputation, as the national gallery. However, now they have is a stolen work <...> which they do not want to return her lost family." The lawyer also stressed that special attention should be paid to the works that were lost by the owners during the reign of the Nazis and soon after him, as is the case with painting Matisse@

, In turn, the national gallery insists that the theft was not confirmed, and even if he were confirmed, the Museum is not obliged to return the painting to the family. The gallery is forbidden to transfer any picture from your collection. "The gallery remains in force buy 1979 rightful owner of the painting," says mozee@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru