Editing El Greco (section)

== Nazi-looted art ==
In 2010 the heirs of the [[Baron Herzog|Baron Mor Lipot Herzog]], a Jewish Hungarian art collector who had been looted by the [[Nazis]], filed a restitution claim for El Greco's ''The Agony in the Garden''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heirs of Baron Herzog continue battle for Nazi-looted art collection despite US Supreme Court dismissal|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/fight-goes-on-for-baron-herzog-s-nazi-looted-art-collection|access-date=28 March 2021|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|date=7 February 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nickey|first=Lowell Neumann|date=22 June 2017|title=Fight to Recover Nazi-Looted Art Continues in DC|url=https://www.courthousenews.com/fight-recover-nazi-looted-art-continues-d-c/|access-date=28 March 2021|website=Courthouse News Service|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2015, El Greco's ''Portrait of a Gentleman'', which had been looted by the Nazis from German Jewish art collector [[Julius Priester]] in 1944, was returned to his heirs after it surfaced at an auction with a fake provenance.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Boucher|first=Brian|date=24 March 2015|title=El Greco Stolen by Nazis and Sold by Knoedler Returns to Rightful Owners|url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=R651KL190461|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809111351/https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=R651KL190461|archive-date=9 August 2016|access-date=28 March 2021|website=www.lootedart.com|publisher=Artnet|quote=Priester fled to Paris in 1938, leaving for Mexico City in 1940, and his art collection was seized by the Gestapo in 1944. He never returned to his home country. Directly after the end of the war in 1945, Priester publicized his collection, but it has taken decades for some of the works to be recovered.}}</ref> According to Anne Webber, co-chair of the [[Commission for Looted Art in Europe]], the painting's provenance had been "scrubbed".<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 August 2016|title=El Greco Nazi Loot Returned{{snd}}artnet News|url=https://news.artnet.com/market/el-greco-nazis-loot-returned-280817|url-status=live|access-date=28 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807034030/https://news.artnet.com/market/el-greco-nazis-loot-returned-280817|archive-date=7 August 2016|quote=It was listed in exhibition catalogues as being in the collection of New York's Knoedler & Co, who bought the painting from the Viennese dealer Frederick Mont. Mont acquired the painting from a dealer who worked with the Gestapo, according to Anne Webber, co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the London nonprofit that secured the painting's return. The painting's provenance was scrubbed, with records indicating that it came from the collection of one 'Ritter von Schoeller, Vienna'.}}</ref>