Restitution
 

After a series of studies with the help of Western experts found that in my collection is the work that is (one of many) was confiscated by the Nazis from the Jews who lived before the war in Holland.
And now as I do?
I bought the work in the family. According to family legend was the work of their property in the first half of the 19 th century.
But the research goes a different picture. Probably work for him came as a trophy since the Second World War. Former owners categorically deny that my version.
But what to do with facts?
And the facts difficult: the publication of catalogs of exhibitions for 1929 and 1934.

Look at the Federal Law of 15 April 1998 N 64-FZ
"On the cultural objects displaced in the USSR during the Second World War and in the territory of Russia"
(as amended on May 25, 2000, 22 August 2004)

and commentary. Comment can be found in legal databases or charge the search with the name of the law on the Internet.

Spoils of War, the international newsletter http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/rus/start.html
Jura Honor also useful http://www.lostart.ru/studys/

First you need to still determine exactly what we are talking about the subject, which is in the collection, the status of things, which is in the collection, its origin and destiny. I think the owner is too early to worry seriously.

And how long have you purchased it?
Can you somehow convince people that you sell her, take her back? In the end, because they did not fair to you.
How can they deny your version, if the work appears in the catalog embezzlement of things?
I very much hope that you will find a way out.

Bought more than a year ago.
Not in the catalog stolen, and in exhibition catalogs, sales conducted by well-known antiquarian. Exhibitions in Amsterdam in 1929 and 1934.
And after it became known that when the Nazis occupied Holland (antiquarian fled, leaving almost the entire collection) to them, for not a lot of money, sold 600 works from the collection of the antiquary.
Work bought Goering. 300 works he left at home. And the second half, (here is unknown), or returned to the representative of this gallery, or to sell (again, through a representative) at the Dutch auctions and Munich.
Is looking for other sources of information to clarify this issue.
While these sales were considered illegal after the war.
That's when all excavated, then give everyone the opportunity to see the work and tell the whole story properly and with deliberation.