The Claude Monet pastel looted from a Jewish couple by Nazis in the second world war was returned to the family’s descendants, officials said on Wednesday

Adalbert “Bela” and Hilda Parlagi purchased the artwork, titled Bord de Mer, at an Austrian art auction in 1936. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the Parlagis had to flee and they left their possessions in storage.

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The Nazis in 1940 seized their belongings, which included seven other artworks

The Monet, which dates to about 1865, subsequently “disappeared” in 1941, the FBI said in a press release.

“It’s an act of justice to have it returned,” Anne Webber, co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, reportedly said. “It has huge sentimental feeling for the family.”

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@Kurtroedeger this one fascinated me

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Biggest art heist ever

insights.masterworks.com/art/m

It is on Netflix as docudrama

netflix.com/ie/title/81032570

Well worth watching if you haven't seen it

@Kurtroedeger and these

Scottish Da Vinci art heist explored in new BBC podcast - The nine-part series, titled The Missing Madonna, will feature secret recordings which have never been made public, asking serious questions about the way in which stolen artwork is returned.

bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/the-m

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The world's greatest paintings - the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets underworld.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001c2mj

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I think they need to program a bot that trawls ultra wealthy kids social media and compares the art in the background to the stolen art database

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