Montreal’s Max Stern Foundation gets its Bacchus back
Today, the FBI returned the painting, Young Man as Bacchus by the Caravaggist painter Jan Franse Verzijl to representatives of the Montreal-based Max and Iris Stern Foundation, in a ceremony held at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Stern was a German-Jewish art dealer who was forced to close his gallery in Dsseldorf and sell his inventory by the Nazi regime.
The FBI found the picture at the Spring Masters Fair in May 2015, when it was offered for $60,000 by the Galera Soraya Cartategui of
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