41.   Not a single art gallery or auction house among the dozen he approached was interested in selling the painting for him.

42.   Once a talented artist who sold paintings she made in prison, she now sees only vague shapes and is unable to paint or read.

43.   She acknowledged, however, that some Jews, deprived of livelihoods, businesses and homes, sold their paintings to survive.

44.   She had sold five paintings so far that evening to support elephants no longer needed by the Thai lumber industry.

45.   Soon after, Ms. Gross was sought out by Guild.com, a Wisconsin-based e-commerce company that sells original paintings but specializes in crafts.

46.   That same year, a Nazi-appointed administrator sold the paintings in a forced sale at a hotel there.

47.   The bank had declined, Juvet said, but had offered to sell the painting instead.

48.   The front room, where the two assistants answer the phones at the pine table, is set up to sell paintings.

49.   The museum is suing the Knoedler Gallery, contending it sold the painting to the Bloedels under false pretenses.

50.   The painting was being sold by Jane Engelhard, a philanthropist and longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.