Litigation
May 5, 2006
Claiming Klimt
It took a seven-year legal battle to return the "Mona Lisa of Austria" to a family in Los Angeles County. And if the Nazis had hidden the Gustav Klimt painting in another country, such as Hungary, chances are Maria Altmann of Beverly Hills would still be stuck with a poster of her aunt, not a $120 million portrait.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
It took a seven-year legal battle to return the "Mona Lisa of Austria" to a family in Los Angeles County. And if the Nazis had hidden the Gustav Klimt painting in another country, such as Hungary, chances are Maria Altmann of Beverly Hills would still be stuck with a poster of her aunt, not a $120 million portrait.
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