Claude ullen went through his grandmother's papers to reconstruct what art works she and her family had owned in the years before the war. Some of the works had vanished, others were in plain sight. There's a paul gougin, sold by hedwig's sister in law in 19 38 as she too fled frankfort. A virgin and child by lucas cronock the elder, from the sixteenth century, now in the university of arizona museum of art. Four beaut wall panels in hedwig's dining room by the prominent german landscape painter hans toma. And finally, there was the small, modest still life acquired by hedwig and her husband
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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