Sotheby’s Provenance Disputed in Claim by Heirs for Art Lost in Nazi Era

“St. Francis of Paola Holding a Rosary, Book, and Staff,” by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, thought to have been painted in the 1730s. The relatives of a Jewish gallery owner who left a Tiepolo painting behind when he fled Austria say the auction house posted a misleading history of the work during a…

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