Claude ullen had no legal claim to voswi carnations, just a moral claim. It was not a museum that returned any piece of hedwig's original art collection. In 19 54, rudolph had bought one of the four hans tomo wall paintings that had once hung in hedwig's living room,. One day the blue, your father hears that one of his beloved grandmother's paintings is coming back. And because the fachists chose to be a touch more subtle in their methods of extortion, that painting still hangs to day on the walls of the mat and vase with carnations.
An escape from war-torn Germany. Lavish dinners with Hollywood royalty. A Swedish baron and a dime-store heiress: we explore the long journey of a Van Gogh still life — and what it says about the real value of the things we treasure.
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