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The heirs of the German Expressionist painter George Grosz filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York on Friday against the Museum of Modern Art, saying it had refused to return two paintings and a watercolor by Grosz that were left behind when he fled Germany in 1933.
The artworks — “Portrait of the Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse” (1927), “Self-Portrait With Model” (1928) and the watercolor “Republican Automatons” (1920) — were left with his dealer, Alfred Flechtheim, who was persecuted by the Nazis and fled Germany. The artworks were thought to have been lost after Flechtheim’s death in 1937. (The New York Times)
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