Smuggled Paintings

Week of Oct. 4, 1944
Reproductions of paintings by several artists, including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, are smuggled from Nazi-occupied Paris across the Atlantic, violating a Nazi ban on "decadent" art. The works demonstrate that "the older artists had done considerable work..." under German occupation.

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