Ronald Lauder – Looted Art Champion Faces Question About Own Collection

“As chairman of the Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder has been a patron of scattered efforts to help Jews reclaim what had been theirs. In testimony before Congress, he called these stolen artworks ‘the last prisoners of war.’ But in an interview he also conceded that he had artworks in his collection whose provenance was at best ambiguous and at worst unknowable.”