(25 May 2001)
1. Wide shot journalists at press briefing
2. Wide shot Marei von Saher and Stephen Lash with painting
3. Close up painting
4. SOUNDBITE: (English): Marei von Saher: "Knowing that this belonged to my husband's father, it's, there are very difficult to come out with the right words, it really is. It's a treasure, it's priceless, and it's wonderful at the same time. I keep looking at it, I keep smiling, and I can't believe that it's in our hands, finally."
5. Wide shot journalists
6. SOUNDBITE: (English): Marei von Saher: "I'm going to take it home, I am very excited, and yes I think I should have a party, so that all my friends can come, because all our friends have been living through all this with us, so we can celebrate this together. Number one - maybe a few more to go."
7. Wide shot Stephen Lash
8. SOUNDBITE: (English): Stephen Lash, Chairman of Christie's Americas: "Suddenly, or I would say over the last five years, six years, there's been very heightened awareness of what remains, and there are considerable numbers of works of art out there, all over Western Europe, in Russia."
9. Close up painting
STORYLINE:
About 60 years after Nazi officers looted an extensive collection of Old Masters in the Netherlands, one of the paintings was returned Thursday to the owner's heir.
The heir, Marei von Saher, said she was elated to get the painting back.
She is the sole living heir of Jacques Goudstikker, the foremost collector
and dealer of Old Masters in the Netherlands before World War II.
Von Saher, who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, was married to Goudstikker's son.
The painting, by Dutch pre-Renaissance artist J. W. de Cock, is entitled
"The Temptation of St. Anthony."
It was voluntarily returned by the estate of Hertha Katz after Christie's auction house learned that the painting had been stolen.
The oil, painted in 1520, was to have been sold by Christie's this past
January.
But prior to auction it was identified as a lost Goudstikker and
removed from sale.
It had been estimated that it would sell for dlrs 15,000 to dlrs 20,000.
Measuring 14 inches (36-centimeters) by 12 inches (30 centimeters), in
deep tones of green and brown, it depicts St. Anthony holding a Bible and sitting in the wilderness with animals.
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