Chagall painting stolen by Nazis on display in New York after sale
New York (AFP) - A painting by Marc Chagall, stolen by Nazis in occupied Poland and returned last year to the owner's family who quickly auctioned it off, is on display through 2023 at the Jewish Museum in New York. The oil on canvas, which the Russian-born Chagall painted of his father in 1911 after moving to Paris, was sold last November for $7.4 million at the Phillips auction house, capping a tumultuous history. Purchased in 1928 by Polish-Jewish violin maker David Cender, "The Father" was left behind when his family was forced to move to the Lodz ghetto. Deported to Auschwitz, where his w...