{"id":281,"date":"2016-04-11T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/?p=281"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:42:22","slug":"hiding-art-stolen-by-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/2016\/04\/11\/hiding-art-stolen-by-the-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting looted by Nazis hidden offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_282\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2016\/04\/modigliani.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-image-282 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2016\/04\/modigliani-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"modigliani\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2016\/04\/modigliani-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/files\/2016\/04\/modigliani.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modigliani, <em>Sitting Man<\/em>, 1918<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Le Monde<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Conaissance des arts<\/em> tell the story of a Modigliani sold by Christie&#8217;s and purchased by a <em>marchand <\/em>and collector cousin of Edmond Safra<em>.\u00a0<\/em>The Nazis stole the work from Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner. The Nahmad family, alleged owners, represented to US authorities that the painting was part of the assets of IAC, an offshore company created by Mossack Fonseca. According to a Swiss paper, David Nahmad (colossal art dealer) is the sole owner of the corporation. Mr. Nahmad is himself Jewish. The family&#8217;s impressive art collection is held, according to media reports, in the Geneva Freeports, a customs-free\u00a0heavily guarded facility. Swiss prosecutors raided the storage space and seized the painting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/evasion-fiscale\/article\/2016\/04\/08\/panama-papers-le-modigliani-etait-bien-cache_4898300_4862750.html\">Le Monde (click)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.connaissancedesarts.com\/marche-de-lart\/panama-papers%E2%80%89-le-proprietaire-dun-modigliani-derobe-par-les-nazis-enfin-debusque-1140806\/\">Conaissance des arts (click)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Monde\u00a0and Conaissance des arts tell the story of a Modigliani sold by Christie&#8217;s and purchased by a marchand and collector cousin of Edmond Safra.\u00a0The Nazis stole the work from Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner. The Nahmad family, alleged owners, represented to US authorities that the painting was part of the assets of IAC, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1039,1023],"tags":[14857,154010,3975,154009,154012,154011,154013,154006,35713],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-commentary","category-atheneumstories","tag-christies","tag-modigliani","tag-nazi","tag-panamapers","tag-david-nahmad","tag-edmond-safra","tag-nahmad","tag-nazi-art","tag-offshore"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/atheneum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}