Our Stepmom Stole a Monet From Our Dad and We Want it Back, Sons Say
(DNAINFO) James Fanelli | January 6, 2016 — The sons of a renowned art dealer who hobnobbed with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse are on a mission to recover a Claude Monet painting and other works by Impressionist greats worth tens of millions of dollars they claim their stepmother wrongfully took from their dad.
Marc and Andre Salz say their stepmother, Janet Traeger-Salz, took at least three paintings from the estate of their father, Sam Salz, after he died in 1981. Those paintings, the sons claim in court papers, belonged to his estate and to them as heirs.
The paintings in question are Monet’s “La Seine a Argenteuil,” Edgar Degas’ “Horses in a Meadow” and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Still Life with Figs.” The sons say they believe Traeger-Salz sold the paintings at auctions and private sales in the 1990s and 2000s. Traeger-Salz died March 15, 2015 at 99.