[Southack]

"Did Liz, or Sotheby's, know that a well know van Gogh which surfaced in 1963, having last been seen in 1939 Berlin owned by a Jew who fled Germany, might have a tainted title."

If the owner sold the painting to finance fleeing from Germany, then there is no theft and the courts would simply dismiss the case.

What happened?

[muawiyah]

THe law considers all sales after some point in 1933 to be coerced and therefore void. A sale in 1939 would necessarily have been coerced.