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In the News: Klimt’s “Roses Under The Trees” will be returned from the Musée d’Orsay
In art news, Gustav Klimt’s “Rosiers sous les arbres” (“Roses Under the Trees”) will be returned from France’s Musée d’Orsay to the heirs of its Austrian Jewish owner who sold the painting to Nazi sympathizers “for next to nothing” before dying in the Holocaust. For the full story see:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/arts/design/france-klimt-painting-restitution.htm
Below: Gustav Klimt’s “Rosiers sous les arbres” Painted Circa 1905. Musée d’Orsay, Paris