Chagall painting stolen by Nazis sells for $7.4m at US auction

A painting by Marc Chagall, which was among 15 works stolen by Nazis and eventually returned by France to the heirs of the affected families, sold for $7.4 million at auction in New York on Tuesday. The sale at the Phillips auction house was part of the fall auction season. On Tuesday, Phillips sold 46 works for nearly $139 million. The most expensive, a monumental painting by Cy Twombly, ‘Untitled’(2005), which once belonged to the French businessman Francois Pinault, went for $41.6 million. Chagall’s 1911 oil on canvas, ‘The Father’, was purchased in 1928 by a Polish-jewish violin maker, David Cender, who lost his possessions when he was forced to move to the Lodz ghetto.