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Leonard Lauder Klimt Painting Claimed in Suit

By ARTINFO

Published: October 24, 2007
NEW YORK— A grandson of a Viennese woman who disappeared in the Holocaust has filed a suit against cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder in Manhattan Federal Court demanding the return of a Gustav Klimt painting, reports the New York Times. Georges Jorisch, 79, says that the painting, Blooming Meadow (1906), belonged to his grandmother, Amalie Redlich, and disappeared when Nazis deported her to the Lodz ghetto in Poland in 1941. Lauder purchased the painting in 1983 from dealer Serge Sabarsky, who cofounded New York’s Neue Galerie with his brother Ronald Lauder. The Neue Galerie opened a major Klimt exhibition last week; Blooming Meadow, valued at $10 million to $20 million in the suit, is not part of the exhibition.

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