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Louis-Michel van Loo<\/p><\/div>\n

Courthouse News Service<\/a>\u00a0– Steven Brooks is suing the auction room over a painting by Louis-Michel van Loo titled Allegorical Portrait of a Lady as Diana Wounded by Cupid<\/em> that he bought back in 2004. \u00a0Turns out that the painting was once owned by Hermann Goering (he purchased it on August 23, 1939) and with that name in the provenance, nobody wants to touch it … not even Sotheby’s!<\/p>\n

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Courthouse News Service\u00a0– Steven Brooks is suing the auction room over a painting by Louis-Michel van Loo titled Allegorical Portrait of a Lady as Diana Wounded by Cupid that he bought back in 2004. \u00a0Turns out that the painting was … More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,32],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"\nSteven Brooks Sues Sotheby's Claiming They Sold Him Nazi Art<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Steven Brooks is suing an auction room over a painting by Louis-Michel van Loo he bought back in 2004.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/03\/steven-brooks-sues-sothebys-claiming-they-sold-him-nazi-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steven Brooks Sues Sotheby's Claiming They Sold Him Nazi Art\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Steven Brooks is suing an auction room over a painting by Louis-Michel van Loo he bought back in 2004.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/03\/steven-brooks-sues-sothebys-claiming-they-sold-him-nazi-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-28T11:03:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-26T06:55:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/diana-cupid-loo-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lance Rehs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lance Rehs\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/steven-brooks-sues-sothebys-claiming-they-sold-him-nazi-art\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/steven-brooks-sues-sothebys-claiming-they-sold-him-nazi-art\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lance Rehs\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/34db584ffbf0cf54c708ff5baf53e611\"},\"headline\":\"Steven Brooks Sues Sotheby’s Claiming They Sold Him Nazi Art\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-28T11:03:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-26T06:55:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/steven-brooks-sues-sothebys-claiming-they-sold-him-nazi-art\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":87,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/steven-brooks-sues-sothebys-claiming-they-sold-him-nazi-art\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/diana-cupid-loo-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Rehs Galleries - 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