Heirs demand the consensual return of twelve Schiele works by the Republic of Austria

At an auction held by the renowned auction house Christie’s in London yesterday, March 5, 2025, Egon Schiele’s watercolor “Boy in a Sailor Suit” (1914) fetched € 3,240 000,-. The work comes from the collection of the Viennese cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum (1880-1941), who openly opposed the Nazi regime and was murdered in a concentration camp in 1941.

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