After a 1997 – 1998 exhibit of Schiele's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the painting was seized by order of the New York County District Attorney and had been tied up in litigation by heirs of its former owner who claim that the painting was Nazi plunder and should be returned to them.

The previous owner had been given the painting by Madlener in the 1940s and recalled that Madlener said the mountains in the background were the Torri del Vaiolet, peaks of Dolomites.

His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Léopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) in her painting " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ).< ref >

Her father Leon Benois was an imperial Russian architect and owner of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Benois.

The first one on the right, decorated on the outside with paintings of funereal banquets and the miracle of the calling out of Cerasa's demons, on the inside contains paintings ( including a ceiling painting of a Gorgon's head ) and inhumation burials and has a surviving inscription reading " Marcus Clodius Hermes ", the name of its owner.

It is also said that the owner of the painting ( The National Heritage Trust ) first refused Factory Records access to it.

While active in civic affairs, he also was part owner of an iron foundry and was a successful merchant who was portrayed in John Greenwood's 1750s satirical painting, Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam.

Rogozhin, who is himself the owner of the painting, at one moment says that the painting has the power to take away a man's faith, a comment that Dosotevsky himself made to his wife Anna upon seeing the actual painting that the painting in the novel is based on, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb by Hans Holbein.

Singh had seen the painting while visiting the owner of the painting, David Bowie.

David becomes friends with Mr. Johnson ( Daniels ), owner of the local soda fountain, and introduces him to colorful modern art via a book from the library, sparking in him an interest in painting.

F-111, James Rosenquist's large pop art painting, hung in the tower's lobby until building owner Richard Jacobs sold it to the Museum of Modern Art in 1996.

In China Eggs, an unpublished autobiography that she wrote in 1955, Sage stated that “ these were the happiest days of my life ,”, and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her “ perspective idea of distance and going away .” Nonetheless, in later years Sage usually claimed that she was self-taught, perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that “ she felt as if she had studied with no one .”

The nightclub's regulars each stop by: singer Jane Avril teases Henri charmingly, dancers La Goulue and Aicha fight, and owner Maurice Joyant offers Henri free drinks for a month in exchange for painting a promotional poster.

To an old childhood friend, Daniel Stokes, he concocted a story about a drinking wife and needy children and convinced him to pretend to be an owner of a fake Ben Nicholson painting.

The painting was eventually sold to a collector from the United States, and on her death in 1998 the painting's then owner, American Betsey Cushing Whitney, donated it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C ..

A further indication of legitimacy is the fact that the Chandos portrait was the inspiration for two posthumous portraits of Shakespeare, one by Gerard Soest and another, grander one, known as the " Chesterfield portrait " after a former owner of that painting.

In the DLC " The Lair of the Shadow Broker ", it is revealed that a squad member from the game, Kasumi Goto, is the current owner of the painting in the Mass Effect universe.

The first known owner of the painting brought it to the exhibition organizers whom enabled it to be shown.

Every temporary owner of the painting was presented, along with their biographical data, including that of the Chairman of the committee, the German banker Hermann J Abs, who had played a key role in the economic design and stabilization of Nazism.

However, when Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley got wind of these developments, he threatened to scuttle the whole deal by invoking his exclusive rights to operate a major league team in southern California.

Hazmi got a recommendation from the mosque for a job at a nearby Texaco station and car wash, a business whose former owner, a Muslim, was known to help young men in need of work.

With the help of the Van Wageners, she took the issue to court and, after months of legal proceedings, got back her son, who had been abused by his new owner.

The township got its name from the son of a 19th century glass factory owner, William Coffin, Sr., who bought large tracts of timber in Camden County about six miles west of Hammonton and with his son-in-law in 1929.

It was originally supposed to be the county seat of Golden Valley County and got the name Golva from the first three letters of Golden and first two letters of Valley, the name having been suggested by the original townsite owner, A. L.

The island got its name from the owner of the island in the 19th century: Harman Blennerhassett, an Irish immigrant to the United States.

So my position got stated very well in the newspaper, and lo and behold, Wrangler to their credit said, " Wow, even though we made our agreement with the publisher, the owner of the song, we can see now that John Fogerty really hates the idea ," so they stopped doing it.

When the record store owner advises him to look at the ' Oldies ' section, Homer takes out a Styx record and says " Oldies ?, but you got all the top bands in here.

Stevenson commented that " If you've got the owner of the label saying he wants to put out a record by what is probably his favorite band of all time, that's rad.

* Al Delvecchio ( Al Molinaro )-From Seasons 4 – 10 ( 1976 – 1982 ) Al became the new owner / cook of the drive-in after Arnold got married the previous season.

With Season 4, Al Molinaro was added as Al Delvecchio, the new owner of Arnold's, after Pat Morita's character of Arnold moved on after his character got married ( Morita had left the program to star in a short-lived sitcom of his own, Mr. T and Tina, which was actually a spin-off of Welcome Back, Kotter.

As part of the deal with the former owner, Finnair got a 5 % stake in Norwegian.

When Averea was rebranded as tabloid Click !, the owner hired many people from Libertatea ; this new concurrent got a very similar look to the original, including the topless girls, who are featured on page 3.

Once the camel-puller got rich enough to own close to a full file of 18 camels, he could join the caravan not as an employee but as a kind of a partner — now instead of earning wages he would be paying money ( around 20 taels per round-trip in 1926 ) to the owner of ( the rest of ) the caravan for the benefit of joining the caravan, sharing in the food, etc.

During that season, the Baysox also got a new owner, as the Maryland Baseball Partnership sold the team ( along with the Frederick Keys and Delmarva Shorebirds ) to the Comcast cable network.

Paramount bought one more TV station in 1993: WKBD-TV in Detroit, Michigan ( the same state where the conglomerate got its start ), at the time an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company ( which was headed by Barry Diller, who had proposed a " fourth network " while working for Paramount, but could not convince the board ; Fox's owner, News Corporation, was, however, interested in starting a network ).

" In the Old Kilkenny Review, year unknown, Peter Smithwick, K. M., Solicitor, wrote that the tradition of Kilkenny is that Sullivan ’ s Brewery was founded in 1702 ... Daniel Sullivan, allegedly a Protestant, bought the property in trust for Pierse Bryan of Jenkinstown, who was Catholic but prohibited by the Penal Laws from buying land ... Twenty years later a Protestant informer got a decree declaring himself the owner of the property ... The property was on the West side of High Street, " standing backward in James ’ Street.

Wanderers owner Sam Lichtenhein was quoted as saying, " We didn't throw Livingstone out ; he's still got his franchise in the old National Hockey Association.

A minority owner of the Detroit Lions, Wilson got wind of Lamar Hunt's plans for a new league, the American Football League, to challenge the NFL.

Albany industrialist and Mohawk Valley Railroad owner Erastus Corning got the above railroads together into one system, and on March 17, 1853 they agreed to merge.

When the owner of the orphanage discovers that Grenouille can locate hidden money with his sense of scent, she became afraid and later got rid of him by apprenticing him to a tanner.

During the 2005 offseason, Modano contemplated signing with the Boston Bruins, but he decided to stay with the Stars after owner Tom Hicks got involved.

She saw Alexieff's work in a bookshop window and got the name of the artist as well as his address from the owner of the bookstore.

When you return to the hooded guy who gave you the job, you find out the medallion isn't his, but another person's who got robbed by the foodless guy, and now you can either Honor the agreement and leave with your payment, or be Honest and take the medallion to its real owner, killing the person who gave you the job.