Stolen by the Nazis Klimt painting put up for auction

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Stolen by the Nazis Klimt painting put up for auction

Auction house Sotheby's November 2 at the auction of Impressionist and Modern painting by Gustav Klimt expose entitled "Littslberg on Lake Attersee." It is stated on the site auktsiona.Kak notes Reuters, landscape Austrian artist, painted in 1915 is estimated at $ 25 million. Experts expect that the picture will become one of the most interesting lots that session, as exhibited in the auction for the first time.

"Littslberg on Lake Attersee" kept by their true owners until 1941, while the hostess Klimt landscape - Amalie Redlich (Amalie Redlich) perished in a concentration camp, and the picture is not confiscated by the Nazis. Canvas returned to a relative of the deceased - Canadian George Yorishu - only in 2011. The picture conveyed Yorishu Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg, where a Canadian landscape in the case of sales promised to 1.3 million euros.

Yorish is a descendant of the collector Victor Tsukerkandla, who died in 1927. Tsukerkandl collected Klimt landscapes, in particular, his collection was a picture of "The Church in Cassone," which also managed to get Yorishu zaltsburgerskogo of the museum. This picture Yorish sold for $ 43 million.

Together with the landscape Klimt at Sotheby's in early November, going under the hammer picture by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet. Picasso "Morning Serenade", along with the canvas Klimt are the most expensive lots (estimated cost of 18-25 million dollars).

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