From The Art Newspaper . . .

LONDON. A sculpture bought by Hitler in 1939 was offered for sale by London dealer Simon Wingett for £150,000 ($233,000) last month. The marble work, by Fritz Röll (1879-1956), was to have been sold at Sotheby’s in 2004, but was withdrawn when the auction house discovered it had been owned by Hitler.

Hitler visited the pro-Nazi Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1939, and decided to buy the idealised, near-life size naked figure tying its sandals. The work, made sometime between 1910 and 1914, is regarded as Röll’s masterpiece. What happened to the sculpture after Hitler’s death is un­known.

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