Erasing Jewish collectors' names from Nazi looted art: Alfred Weinberger
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In 2009, Sotheby's put up for sale this Renoir entitled DEUX FEMMES DANS UN JARDIN with the following provenance.
PROVENANCE
Soutro Gallery, London Sale: Christie's, London, June 24, 1997, lot 284 Private Collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 3, 2005, lot 114) Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
No mention of Alfred Weinberger, who had owned the Renoir until a Nazi looting organization seized it in Paris on December 4, 1941.
The above is one of the most typical provenance types that conceals Nazi-looted art.
Alfred Weinberger died in 1977 without ever again seeing the Renoir, which bounced around from Paris to Johannesburg, to London and (of course) to Zurich and New York.
It wasn't until decades later, in 2018, and thanks to work by many different people, including lawyers and the FBI, that the Renoir looted from Alfred Weinberger was restituted to his family and his name restored to its place in the provenance.
see:
Nazis stole a Jewish man’s Renoir painting in 1941. Now it’s been returned to his only living heir.
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