The heirs of a Jewish art collector sued one of Paris’ leading art museums for the return of a painting. The heirs of Alfonse Kann sued the Georges Pompidou Center for Georges Braque’s “The Guitar Player,” which the museum purchased in 1981. A museum official was quoted as saying the painting had been bought in “good faith.”
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