A Van Gogh sketch sold in Nazi Germany at a forced “Jew Auction” in 1935 and returned last month to the heir of its original owner will be sold at auction in London in December. The Sotheby’s auction house last week estimated that “L’Olivette,” one of several pen-and-ink sketches completed while the artist was at a French asylum in 1889, could fetch up to $3 million.
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