Vienna’s Leopold Museum is selling an important cityscape by Austrian early Expressionist Egon Schiele in order to be able to afford the settlement price of $19 million dollars to keep another painting of Schiele’s, Portrait of Wally, that was stolen from Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray by a Nazi agent in late 1939. The …
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