{"id":64371,"date":"2021-11-14T08:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=64371"},"modified":"2021-11-14T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:58:36","slug":"van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-rothschild-by-nazis-sells-for-35-9-million-breaking-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-rothschild-by-nazis-sells-for-35-9-million-breaking-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh painting stolen from Rothschild by Nazis sells for $35.9 million, breaking record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SHIRA HANAU<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 A watercolor painting by Vincent Van Gogh that was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner during the Holocaust was sold at auction for $35,855,000 Thursday, breaking the record for the largest sum ever paid for a Van Gogh painting on paper at auction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64372\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64372\" class=\"wp-image-64372 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/569;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64372\" class=\"wp-image-64372 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-14-21-Van-Gogh-Wheatstacks-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-64372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Wheatstacks,&#8221; a Van Gogh watercolor stolen by the Nazis, was sold at auction by Christie&#8217;s in New York Thursday for $35.9 million. (Christie&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The painting had been purchased by Max Meirowsky, a German Jewish art collector, in 1913. When Meirowsky left Germany for Amsterdam in the face of growing antisemitism in 1938, he left the painting with an art dealer who sold it to Alexandrine de Rothschild of the banking family. When Rothschild left Germany for Switzerland, her art collection was seized by the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>The painting\u2019s whereabouts between the end of World War II and the 1970s are unknown, but in 1979, American businessman Ed Cox purchased the painting at a gallery in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds from Thursday\u2019s sale are set to be split between Cox\u2019s estate and the descendants of Meirowsky and Rothschild according to the terms of a negotiation facilitated by Christie\u2019s. \u201cThe settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder,\u201d the auction house said in its listing of the painting.<\/p>\n<p>The painting, called \u201cMeules de bl\u00e9\u201d in French of \u201cWheatstacks\u201d in English, was completed by Van Gogh in 1888 and features a colorful wheat harvest scene.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Van%20Gogh%20painting%20stolen%20from%20Rothschild%20by%20Nazis%20sells%20for%20%2435.9%20million%2C%20breaking%20record\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7134,23],"tags":[8790,8795,11838,629,8788,11837],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64373,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64371\/revisions\/64373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}