Chagall’s father at auction in New York

Ten months after the National Assembly approved a bill allowing the return of 15 works from the national collections looted by the Nazis to Jewish collectors (see QDA of 22 February), one of them, The father (1911) by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), will leave France for Phillips auction rooms on Park Avenue on November 15th. A seven-year investigation conducted by the Canadian firm Mondex Corporation, in collaboration with the French Ministry of Culture, had shown the confiscation of the painting in 1940 from Polish Jewish luthier David Cender (18998-1966), a survivor of the Lodz ghetto …