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...SUED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 72, U.S. film star, over the ownership of Vincent Van Gogh's View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy; in Los Angeles. The descendants of Margarete Mauthner, a Jewish refugee who fled from Berlin to South Africa in 1939, say there is evidence the 1889 painting was confiscated from Mauthner by the Nazis. Taylor claims the painting, which she bought at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 for $257,000 and which is now worth $15 million, was sold by Mauthner in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power, "for financial reasons...
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