"Nazi-looted Painting From Munich Fetches $2.9 Million"

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YAHOO NEWS  scooped the story 4 hours ago!

I am writing this at 7PM on June 24, 2015

The painting was auctioned at Sotheby's London today
and it was expected to sell for–at most–$800,000.

It "fetched"  ₤1.865 million ($2.92 million).
 

But the story began in 1939, 
when the painting in this image
was stolen by the Nazis
and the theft was witnessed
by the thirteen year-old
nephew of its rightful owner.



The painting did not re-surface
until two years ago when it was found–along with 
twelve hundred other pieces of art–in a Munich 
apartment occupied by  the son of Hildebrandt Gurlitt 
who was handpicked by Hermann Goering to supervise 
art looted from Jews in Germany and elsewhere.

Only two pieces of the  "Gurlitt trove"  have been 
returned to their  rightful heirs.

The painting  in the image is one of them.

Max Liebermann's  Two Riders On The Beach
is the first one to be put up for auction.

David Toren,  the rightful heir to the painting–
and eye-witness to its theft–is now blind. 
 
Click  here  for a 2014 interview with Mr. Toren. 

The next Gurlitt page is  there.
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