A painting stolen from a Jewish family has become the first work from Cornelius Gurlitt’s collection of looted art to be sold at auction.
Two Riders on a Beach by German-Jewish artist Max Liebermann fetched £1.9 million at a sale at Sotheby’s in London.
It was one of more than 1,200 works found in Gurlitt apartment in 2012 in a stash containing paintings by Picasso, Chagall and Cézanne.
Gurlitt, who died last year , inherited the collection from his father, an art dealer who was hired by the Nazis to collect “degenerate” artwork.
