Paris, France – The ex-wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is submitting a claim that a work by Matisse—found recently among some 1400 works of art confiscated by the Nazis, and estimated at around £60M—is legally hers.
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The MIRROR (http://bit.ly/1ftDrdO) reports that the former Mrs. Strauss-Kahn, 65 year-old Anne Sinclair, claims the Henri Matisse in question, “Sitting Woman,” originally belonged to her maternal grandfather, French art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who fled both his collection and Paris upon the Nazi occupation during WWII.
Chris Marinello, director of Art Recovery International, expressed confidence that “Sitting Woman” would bear the Rosenberg gallery stamp, and that he is currently preparing a claim for Sinclair.
Sinclair, who currently lives in Paris, offered no comment, but a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office said everything possible would be done to help those whose can prove rightful ownership to the recently discovered works of art.
What’s so major about this picture? looks like from Maalos kids magazine.
Ms. Sinclair is much more than the “ex-wife of Dominque Strauss-Kahn”. She is a very respected journalist in her own right. For years she was the leading television interviewer in France and she now heads the French language edition of HuffingtonPost. Her parents were wealthy French Jews who fled the Nazis (she herself was born in the US) and it is no surprise that some of their art was looted.