The last descendant of a Jewish family is accusing an auction house of trying to sell off a $100 million painting of her great aunt by a major artist after changing its name to hide the fact it had been stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust, new court papers says. Patricia Leahy — an American member of Austria’s wealthy Lieser family — claims that the Vienna auction house im Kinsky pulled the sneaky move so they could make a fortune by peddling Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Fräulein Margarethe

Tag-uri: Austria