In Argentina, a picture stolen during the Second World War was accidentally found Gering's associate

Art experts who have studied the image reported that in their opinion, a picture hanging on a wall in a house in Argentina is a real "portrait of the lady", based on the size of the work and in the fact that it is unlikely to be reasonable. According to Jewish News Syndicate, in recent years at the auctions, similar work of Gisland has been sold for only a few thousand dollars, and sometimes less.

"There is no reason to think that it is a copy," said Annelis Kool and Perry Schriere from the Netherlands cultural heritage agency, adding that "the final confirmation can be obtained by looking at the reverse of the picture" where "there may still be marks or labels confirming origin.

" The "Portrait of the lady" once belonged to the Dutch-Jewish collector Jacques Gudstikker, a successful works of works of art from Amsterdam, who helped his Jewish brothers flee from the Nazis before died in the sea during his attempt to flee to the UK. The 2006 government investigation showed that at least 800 works of art belonging to the goodsticker were confiscated or bought by the Nazis. The lost works of art were classified as "looted".

In the early 2000s, investigators managed to return more than 200 works, but many of them-for example, "Portrait of the Lady"-were considered missing, they were included in the international list of lost works of art and the official Dutch list of works of art stolen by the Nazis. Further investigation of how the portrait could be in the Argentine House, eventually led reporters to Friedrich Cadgien, who was once a financial adviser to a high -ranking Nazi official Herman Gering.

He was instructed to fund the Nazis's hostilities, often at the expense of theft of works of art and diamonds from Jewish merchants in the Netherlands. After the war, Kadgien fled to Argentina, where he died in 1979. It turned out that the house indicated in the ad belongs to one of his daughters. She refused to talk to journalists and stated that she did not know what the picture was.

However, Mary von Sacher, the heir to Gudstikker, stated that she now plans to sue and start a lawsuit to return the picture to her family. She explained that detailed information about the Hudstikker collection was stored in a small black book, which he took with him on a fatal trip to the United Kingdom when the Netherlands came under Nazi occupation. In the end, the brochure was discovered by his wife Daisy, who survived, and their only son, Edo, who managed to reach the United States safely.

In addition, researchers from the Netherlands cultural heritage agency claim that they have found another picture stolen from Jews, which now belongs to the other daughter of Cadgiene. We will remind, earlier the family of Levenstein, who lived in Amsterdam before the Second World War, gave her rights to the picture of the abstractionist Vasyl Kandinsky. Levensteini sued, assuring that the "picture with homes" was taken away by the Nazis.