Nazi-Looted Monet Painting Held by FBI Expected to Be Returned to Owner’s Descendants
A small pastel drawing by Claude Monet that was seized by Nazis during World War II is expected to be returned to the descendants of its previous owners by the the FBI, the Times-Picayune reported last week.Monet’s Bord de Mer is currently in storage at the New Orleans Field Office of the FBI after being seized last June. The work was last sold by New Orleans-based antiquities dealer M.S. Rau. to Bridget Vita and now-deceased husband Kevin Schlamp in 2019. Schlamp died in March. The F