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Record £24m sale ends family's battle over art looted by Nazis
23rd Jun, 2011
Sotheby's set a £24.68 million record for artist Egon Schiele to close a 10-year scandal over a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. 'Houses With Washing Lines', 1914, one of Schiele's masterpieces, was sent to auction in London by the Leopold museum in Vienna. It was sold to raise funds for the family of Lea Jaray, a Jewish art dealer in the Austrian capital who fled the Nazis to live in London, leaving her pictures behind.
