The painting entitled “Les Péniches”, by the painter Alfred Sisley, is included in the inventory of National Museums recovery works. It will be returned to the beneficiaries of Parisian gallery owner and collector Grégoire Schusterman.
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A painting by the British painter Alfred Sisley, currently on display at the Dieppe museum (Seine-Maritime), will be returned to the descendants of a Parisian gallery owner robbed during the Second World War, France Bleu Normandie reported this Friday. This table, titled Bargesbelonged to Grégoire Schusterman, a Parisian gallery owner and collector of Jewish faith.
The painting, representing a small Normandy port, is included in the inventory of National Museums recovery works (MNR), that is to say French works which were stolen and/or sold during the Second World War and sent to Germany. A large number of these works are property stolen from Jewish families. Since the 1950s, these works have been deposited in certain museums in France, they are listed and, after long procedures, can be returned to the descendants of the owners.
“It’s a lot of joy and emotion”
After numerous checks, a few months ago a commission finally gave a favorable opinion on the return of Sisley’s painting to the gallery owner’s beneficiaries. On May 13, the painting will leave Normandy, heading to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where it will be kept until May 16, the date of the official restitution ceremony to the rights holders, around ten members of Grégoire’s family. Schusterman.
“It’s a lot of joy and emotion”confides to France Bleu Normandie Léonor Lopez-Albagli, who works for the Ministry of Culture and is above all the great-niece of Grégoire Schusterman. “I think he would be very happy if he saw thissmiled Léonor. He suffered a lot after the war, from the injuries and trauma caused by the Shoah, he really wanted this painting to come back into the possession of his family.”