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Seven works on paper by Egon Schiele have been restituted to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer killed at Dachau concentration camp in 1941 after being forced to surrender his art collection to the Nazis. Six of these pieces will be auctioned at Christie’s New York in November 2024, with three watercolor portraits—including *Stehende Frau (Dirne)* (1912), *Selbstbildnis* (1910), and *Ich liebe Gegensätze* (1912)—headlining the 20th Century Evening Sale on November 9, and three more offered in the Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Sale on November 11. Estimates range from $150,000 to $2.5 million per work, and proceeds will be split among Grünbaum’s heirs, who plan to fund a scholarship program for young musicians.

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The Art Institute of Chicago has been granted an emergency stay by an appellate judge, pausing the restitution of Egon Schiele's drawing "Russian War Prisoner" (1916) to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer and art collector who died in a Nazi concentration camp. The museum is appealing a New York Supreme Court judge's April 23 order to surrender the artwork, which has been off view since September 2023 when it was seized by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. The museum disputes that the work was looted, citing evidence that Grünbaum's sister-in-law recovered the collection after the war and sold it to a dealer.

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A Czech man named Milos Vavra, a descendant of Jewish cabaret performer and collector Fritz Grünbaum who was murdered by the Nazis, has filed a lawsuit against Christie's in New York Supreme Court. Vavra demands that the auction house disclose the ownership and location of several blue-chip artworks from the Grünbaum Collection, including works by Egon Schiele. He alleges that Christie's entered a nondisclosure agreement with a Swiss family seeking to auction looted artworks, and he needs the information urgently to file claims before the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (HEAR Act) statute of limitations expires in late 2026.

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