Monet from Gurlitt collection found in suitcase

A painting by Claude Monet has surfaced in a suitcase owned by Cornelius Gurlitt, who left his entire collection of controversially sourced art to Bern’s Kunstmuseum in May. The suitcase and the painting inside it had travelled to the hospital with Gurlitt shortly before his death on May 6. The hospital turned over the suitcase and its contents to Gurlitt’s lawyer at the beginning of September, according to the German “Schwabing Art Trove” organisation. Gurlitt, who lived a reclusive lifestyle, inherited the paintings, sketches and prints in his collection from his father Hildebrand Gurlitt, a prominent German art dealer in the 1930s and 1940s who worked with the Nazi regime. The current value of the collection is an estimated CHF1.23 billion ($ 1.4 billion). The newly discovered Monet painting is a drawing on paper that depicts a landscape on a blue background. According to the Schwabing Art Trove, the work bears resemblance to Monet’s “Vue de … Show more
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– SWI swissinfo.ch