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FBI RETURNS NAZI-LOOTED MONET PASTEL TO JEWISH OWNERS' HEIRS 84 YEARS LATER

By Sarah N. Lynch
October 11, 20243:36 PM GMT+2Updated a day ago
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WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 9 story corrects a word in the quote to
'meaning,' not 'feeling,' in paragraph 4)
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art
from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their
Vienna home after Austria was annexed into Adolf Hitler's Germany.
After the war, Bela Parlagi searched for his art to no avail until his death in
1981. His son continued the search without success until he died in 2012.
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But on Wednesday, more than 80 years later, Parlagi's granddaughters Helen Lowe
and Francoise Parlagi were reunited with the missing Monet after the FBI and a
Britain-based nonprofit located it in the United States.
"It's an act of justice to have it returned," said Anne Webber, the co-chair of
the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the non-profit that started helping
Parlagis' heirs search for the missing art in 2014. "It has huge sentimental
meaning for the family."
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The 7- by 11-inch (18- by 28-centimetre) pastel, called "Bord de Mer," dates
back to 1865 and features a scene from France's Normandy shoreline.
The family stored the piece with the rest of their belongings at a shipping
company warehouse in 1938. The Nazis seized their property in 1940 and the Monet
pastel was sold at auction in 1941.
Item 1 of 2 Claude Monet's pastel on paper, "Bord de Mer", dated about 1865 and
which was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by Nazi occupiers in France, is
seen after its recovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Art Crime
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[1/2]Claude Monet's pastel on paper, "Bord de Mer", dated about 1865 and which
was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by Nazi occupiers in France, is seen
after its recovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Art Crime
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The FBI got involved in 2021, after the commission discovered that a New
Orleans-based art dealer had acquired the painting in 2017 and sold it to
private collectors in 2019.

The FBI recovered the painting in 2023, after it appeared for sale at a
Houston-based gallery.
The FBI said the owners of the pastel - Bridget Vita and her late husband Kevin
Schlamp, did not realize the Nazis had stolen the Monet and they voluntarily
surrendered it.
"While this Monet is undoubtedly valuable, its true worth lies in what it
represents to the Parlagi family," said James Dennehy, the assistant director in
charge of the FBI's New York City office, in a statement.

In March, the Parlagi family recovered another artwork when the Austrian
government returned a chalk drawing of German composer Richard Wagner by Franz
von Lenbach, after the commission located it at the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
Webber, who advises anyone buying art to carefully check its provenance,
estimates about 90% of the artwork and other possessions stolen by the Nazis is
still missing.
The Parlagi family is still searching for six artworks, including a signed
watercolor by Paul Signac called Seine in Paris, and the FBI's investigation is
ongoing.

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