Germany: looted Matisse belongs to Jewish family

Published June 11, 2014 7:43pm ET



AMSTERDAM (AP) — The German task force investigating a huge trove of art recovered from a Munich apartment says one of the paintings — Henri Matisse’s 1921 “Woman Sitting in an Armchair” — was looted from Jews by the Nazis and rightly belongs to the descendants of Paris art dealer Paul Rosenberg.

The painting depicts a dark-haired woman, seated with a fan in her lap and wearing a necklace and loose headscarf.

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