Van Gogh drawing once looted by Nazis sold for over $10 million at auction

Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 drawing of La Mousmé (courtesy: Christie’s)
A Vincent Van Gogh painting looted by the Nazis from a Jewish collector during Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands was sold during an auction for $10.4 million, The Art Newspaper reported Thursday.
The masterpiece was handed back to the Jewish owner in the 1950s.
Kurt Hirschland and his wife managed to survive World War II by fleeing to the US, but their prized artwork was stolen during the Nazi occupation.
The drawing was recovered shortly after the war and hung at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
La Mousmé, the Japanese-inspired drawing of a girl from 1888, was one of the most expensive items sold in the art collection “A Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud,” during the live-streamed auction.

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