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Source: NYT
Breaking News
11-8-06

Judge Refuses to Halt Auction of a Picasso

federal judge refused yesterday to bar Christie’s in New York from auctioning a painting by Picasso that a German banker’s heir says was sold under duress in Nazi Germany.
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