A $50,000 painting stolen 80 years ago by the Nazis was recovered Wednesday in Argentina, about a week after it appeared in a real estate listing from the daughter of a Nazi fugitive.
“Portrait of a Lady” by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi was among more than 1,000 works looted from the collection of Dutch-Jewish collector Jacques Goudstikker during World War II. Before late August, its last known owner was notorious genocidaire Hermann Goering .
But last week, it appeared in a house listing for a home in Mar Del Plata owned by Patricia Kadgien. She’s the daughter of Goering’s financial advisor Friedrich Kadgien, who fled to Argentina after the war and died in 1978.
A Dutch newspaper reported on the discovery, and Argentine authorities raided the home . However, when the cops