A Painting by Modigliani Spolié, Stored in the Geneva Franc Ports, Must Be Returned to a French Farmer

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"The man seated leaning on a cane", a canvas painted in 1918 by the Italian artist and estimated at 20 million euros, is to be returned to the sole heir of his plundered owner in 1943, a French octogenaryThe Supreme Court of the State of New York ordered the restitution of a painting by Modigliani, spoliated during the Second World War to a British Jewish antiquarian, to his sole heir, a French farmer installed in Dordogne (southwest).The painti…