A U.S. federal judge blocked the Museum of Modern Art from sending an oil painting back to a gallery in Austria because of claims the Nazis may have looted it from a Jewish family. The move came hours after a New York state court said the painting, as well as a second oil by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, should be returned to Vienna. The U.S. attorney who sought the order said it is “an important policy of the United States and other countries to return Holocaust-era looted property.”
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