CNN style Arts | Dozens of Nazi-looted artworks are exhibiting in New York

Henri Matisse’s “Girl in Yellow and Blue with Guitar” from 1939 will be on show at the Jewish Museum’s show “Afterlives.” Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Museum

Dozens of artworks once stolen from Jewish collectors by the Nazis in the 1930s and ’40s will be exhibited in New York starting on Friday.

Taken before and during World War II, the paintings being displayed at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum include works by European greats Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne.

The Nazis are known to have looted and stolen hundreds of thousands of artworks in total — often from Jewish collectors, gallerists and families fleeing persecution. Though some of the pieces were later recovered and returned to their owners or their descendants, many remain missing or are the subject of ongoing legal battles.—read more—