Bührle Foundation reaches confidential settlement with heirs of Jewish Collector over Manet

April 25 2025

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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from Switzerland that the Bührle Foundation, which has placed most of its works on loan to the Kunsthaus in Zurich, has reached a confidential settlement regarding Edouard Manet's La Sultane. The settlement was organised with the heirs of the Jewish industrialist collector, Max Silberberg, who claimed the work was sold due to Nazi persecution (click on the link above to read more).

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