Custody Battle Brews over Picasso Painting

NPR

Published January 10, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

The courts will decide who gets to keep the Picasso painting "Femme en Blanc," now in a private collection in Chicago. It first belonged to a Jewish couple in Berlin, but was taken by the Nazis. The last living descendant of the original owners has sued to recover the artwork. NPR's Jason DeRose reports.

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