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So who was the heir in 27 years of disputes?
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Friday, April 23, 2010 11:44
Paintings from the Collection of Vollard, saved from the Nazis as his assistant, first came up for auction
Auction house Sotheby's auctioned in London and Paris painting the greatest French artists of the XX century from the collection of the famous French collector and patron beginning of the century Ambroise Vollard. Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and other famous artists were first released after 70 years ago have been rescued from the Nazis by the Assistant Collector, Croatian Jew Erich Shlomovichem, writes The Independent.
In the summer of 1939 Shlomovich before leaving France to escape the Nazis hid the part of the collection Vollard in Paris bank. This part of the collection Vollard gave his young assistant, before that year was killed in a car accident. Once the paintings were hidden in the vaults of the bank Societe Generale, Shlomovich fled with his family in his native Yugoslavia, where locals gave them the Nazis. Shlomovich family was sent to a concentration camp and, presumably, was killed in a gas chamber in 1942 at age 27.
In 1989, the safe was opened and its contents caused a series of litigation between the heirs of Vollard and Shlomovicha. Vollard's heirs argued that the collector handed Shlomovichu part of his pictures only to the one opened on behalf of the gallery in Belgrade. Litigation dragged on for decades, but eventually was settled in 2006 -
part of the collection moved away heirs Vollard, and the part went to Yugoslavia.
At the auctions in June, will feature works by Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin and Renoir, for which is expected to rescue up to 26 million dollars.
http://www.newsru.com/cinema/23apr2010/klct.html