The descendant of German bankers Jewish Mendelssohn-Bartholdy demanded a major New York museums return of early works by Picasso stolen from his family Nazis

representative of a dynasty of Jewish bankers Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Shops Julius (Julius Schoeps) demanded that the two major New York museums return of two early works of Pablo Picasso, the total cost of 400 million dollars (270 million euros). Agency France Presse indicates that we are talking about pictures «Boy, leading a horse» (1905-1906) from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and «Le Moulin de la Galette» (1900) from the Solomon Guggenheim Museum.

Shops said that both works were lost family Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, rather banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, during the rule of the Nazis. Both the American Museum of challenged claims Shopsa and sent to a court complaint against him. According to the agency, the hearing scheduled to begin shortly.

In 2006-2007, the name of Julius Shopsa repeatedly appeared in the press in connection with an attempt to block the sale of British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, through Christie's auction of another work of Pablo Picasso - «Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto» (1903). The painting was temporarily arrested, and the arrest removed from it, but the house Christie's has refused to re-expose it to the auction. Nevertheless, Lloyd Webber has been recognized as the legitimate owner of linen. In addition, the Supreme Court of New York State in its verdict said that Julius Shops is not a legitimate representative of the heirs of the family Medelson-Bartholdy.

Source: lenta.ru