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Nazi-looted painting returned to Poland in emotional NY ceremony

By REUTERS

FEBRUARY 6, 2014 22:46

NEW YORK - A painting by an 18th-century German artist, one of tens of thousands of Polish art objects looted by the Nazis and missing for 75 years, was returned to Poland by US officials on Thursday.

In an emotional ceremony in New York, Poland's US Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf thanked the officials as he accepted the painting by Johann Conrad Seekatz, entitled "Saint Philip Baptizing a Servant of Queen Kandaki."

The painting, dating to 1768 and valued at about $40,000, was given to Poland's National Museum in Warsaw in 1879 by the Warsaw School of Arts, officials said. The Nazis occupied Warsaw from 1939 to 1945.

In 2006, a New York gallery sold the painting - which it had erroneously listed under a different name and attributed to another painter - to a gallery in London. Both firms cooperated with the investigation, said Assistant US Attorney Sharon Levin, head of the assets forfeiture unit in Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office.

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