The painting, “Odalisque,” was sold to the Stedelijk Museum in the early 1940s by a German-Jewish family desperate to escape the Nazis. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The Stedelijk Museum in ...
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam says it will return a painting by Henri Matisse to the heirs of a Jewish textiles manufacturer who sold it under duress in the Netherlands before being deported to a ...
She’s called Odalisque but she doesn’t resemble the passive figure from art history. Strong and self-confident, she gazes right back at the viewer. Unlike most odalisques, she’s not reclining in an ...