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Case Summary
Newman Claim Against Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached an amicable agreement over a Monet painting stolen from a Berlin bank vault by the Soviets at the end of World War II and later acquired by a Met trustee, who donated it to the Museum in 1994. As part of a 2001 settlement agreement . . .
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