A Blood-Stained Renoir on Exhibit in Paris (Q107997009)
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(P1683) "“La Petite Irène,” which once hung in the grand Parisian mansions of Irene’s Sephardic art-collecting relatives, was looted in July 1941 by German forces from the Chambord chateau in the Loire Valley where various Jewish collectors sent precious works for safekeeping alongside the Louvre’s state-owned collection. Irène’s son-in-law, Léon Reinach—convinced that the family of bankers was secure because relatives and in-laws had donated so many precious art works and properties to France—demanded its return. In German documents, Reinach’s demand drew attention to the family and he was dismissed as an “insolent and pretentious” Jew. Months later, he and Irène’s daughter, Beatrice, and their two grown children were deported to Drancy and then to Auschwitz. Irène’s sister, sheltered by her housemaid and her chauffeur, was deported later in 1944." (language: en)

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(P854) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/emil-buhrle-renoir-paris
(P1683) "Bührle was no naïf in the view of investigators for the Allies, who considered him the leading buyer of looted art in Switzerland. He purchased paintings in Paris through intermediaries for Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, Hermann Goering, and in turn he provided Goering with coveted Swiss currency, according to Emmanuelle Polack, the curator of a new exhibition at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris that takes a critical look at the art market under the occupation. I" (language: en)

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(P577) Sunday, May 19, 2019

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(P953) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/emil-buhrle-renoir-paris

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(P1476) "A Blood-Stained Renoir on Exhibit in Paris" (language: en)

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