Monday, July 4, 2022

 




Landscape With House and Ploughman by Van Gogh


After Germany looted Russia in WWII and had to withdraw, Russia formed “Trophy Brigades” to confiscate art and recoup losses, only they called it “resaving.” Among the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg’s “resaved” paintings are  and included 74 Impressionist and Post-impressionist canvases; including six by Monet, four by Gauguin, seven by Cézanne, 15 by Renoir, and four by Van Gogh.



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