Portrait of Wally
United States, Austria
2012
90 Min
Color
English
The story of a Nazi-looted painting, Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally, that was discovered on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in 1997, triggering a historic court case that pitted the Manhattan District Attorney, the United States Government and the heirs of a Viennese gallery owner against a major Austrian Museum and MoMA.
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