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eartle Art Museum (SAM)
Director Mimi Gates says
pressure from the Jewish
community had zero impact
on the museum's decision to return
an Henri Matisse painting to the
heirs of Paul Rosenberg, a Jewish art
dealer whose collection was stolen in •
France by the Nazis.
"We said Nye would do the right thing
and hopefully people agree that that's
what we've done. We regret that it rook
so long. Irwe were going to be responsi-
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month, after the museum decided ro-
return Odalisque to the Rosenberg fami-
ly, now living in New York.
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The vote by the museum board
came more than two years after it was
first discovered that the 1927 oil
painting owned by the public museum
was from the missing collection of the
Rosenberg family.
Seattle collectors Prentice and
Virginia Bloedel donated the painting
to the museum. They bought the paint-
ing from New York's Knoedler Gallery
in 1954. The Bloedel's grandson, New
York artist Bing Wright, saw the paint-
ing in Hector Feliciano's 1995 book,
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy
to Steal the World's Greatest Works ofArt,
and notified the Rosenbergs.
In returning the painting, after a
thorough search of its past ownership
by independent French scholars-and

