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Wednesday, 05 November 2025 10:43

The Goulandris Museum in ΝΥ courts over Van Gogh’s “Olive Trees”

The Goulandris Museum in ΝΥ courts over Van Gogh’s “Olive Trees”

In December 1889 Vincent van Gogh drew breaths of life, inspiration and creation, capturing on his canvas images from the garden of the psychiatric asylum where he is hospitalized with severe problems.

One of the works he painted during that period, “The Olive Harvest,” which today is exhibited on the first floor of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum in Pangrati, is the subject of a fierce legal battle, since the heirs of a Jewish family claim that they are the lawful owners of it and are demanding its return from Athens, as well as very large compensation from the ΜΕΤ which sold it, in 1972, to the Greek shipping tycoon, art lover and collector.
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