"Argentinian police have said they will continue hunting for an old master painting looted by the Nazis and spotted by chance in an estate agent's listing after a search of the property in the seaside town of Mar del Plata failed to uncover the work. The painting is not in the house but we're going to keep searching for it, the federal prosecutor Carlos Martinez told local media."
"The Dutch newspaper AD reported this week that it had uncovered documents suggesting that by the end of war the Ghislandi portrait had fallen into the hands it is not clear how of Friedrich Kadgien, a high-ranking Nazi official, SS member and one-time senior aide to Goring. The painting is thought to have accompanied Kadgien when he fled the Netherlands in 1946, first to Switzerland, then Brazil and finally to Argentina."
Argentinian police continue searching for Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi after a Mar del Plata property search failed to locate the work. An estate agency listing showed the painting in a living room, but a large tapestry now hangs there and wall marks suggest a recent replacement. Investigators seized items potentially useful to the probe, including two firearms, engravings and prints. Portrait of a Lady originally belonged to Jacques Goudstikker and was looted during the Nazi era; documents indicate the work later passed into the hands of Friedrich Kadgien, who fled to Switzerland, Brazil and Argentina and died in Buenos Aires in 1978. One of Kadgien's daughters, owner of the Plata del Mar house, and her partner were subject to a judicial investigation after complaints.
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