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| failed artist who coveted priceless art - helmed greatest looting raid in history |
Nazi art day.
The famous 1918 painting by Italian Amedeo Modigliani was stolen at a 1944 auction by the Nazis.
A sensational law suit is in swing as billionaire Helly Nahmad intends to auction the piece through Sotheby's.
Phillippe Maestracchi claims the painting was stolen from his grandfather Oscar Stettiner a prominent Jewish gallery owner in Paris who fled with his family months before France was occupied.
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