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"The suit states that the manuscripts were stolen by the Nazis in October 1940 from Kann's home in St. Germain-en-Laye near Paris. The whereabouts of the manuscripts were unknown to the Kanns, the suit continues, until they appeared at a Wildenstein & Company gallery in Manhattan in November 1996.Kann, a well-known Jewish art collector from the 1920's to 1940's, fled France in 1939 and died in London in 1948. The lawsuit states that he had over 1,200 artworks in his home, including paintings by Picasso, Manet, Matisse and Degas." (language: en-us)
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