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3 months ago

The painting helped save the life of its Jewish subject from Nazis during World War II.
The portrait of Austrian heiress Elisabeth Lederer was looted by the Nazis and almost destroyed.
The piece was owned by beauty tycoon Leonard Lauder who died in June and was son and heir to Estee Lauder.

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction

A painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-bre…

5 months ago

Critics argue ‘shared map’ of Swedish culture is ‘very exclusionary’ and a ‘nationalist education project’

The Gustav Vasa 1541 bible, Pippi Longstocking, Ikea, the right to roam, paternity leave, Sám…

7 months ago

As her million-selling 70s novel, Engagement, is translated into English for the first time, the Swedish author talks about life at 80, finding the ideal love, and why her generation were freer than …

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