The lawyer — Laurence Eisenstein, whose firm works to recover artwork looted by the Nazis — said he’d been speaking to a British scholar who’d come across the name René Gimpel in art collectors’ archives.
Thousands of objects lost or lootedAs well as being a famous gallerist of his time, René Gimpel was a very well-connected man.
Captured sometime between 1916 and 1933, it showed the three Derain paintings in question hanging on the art dealer’s wall.
In 2020, seven years after they began their fight, the Gimpel heirs were finally reunited with the three Derain paintings.
Dumas said this is often not the case for Jewish families trying to recover their ancestors’ stolen art.
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