The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains, is a 1910 painting byPierre-Auguste Renoir representing his late work period (1892–1919). It was bequeathed by Leopold Moller in 1999 to the Friends of Bristol Art Gallery who passed it toBristol City Council for display inBristol Museum.[1][2]
In 2015, theSpoliation Advisory Panel rejected a claim for restitution of the painting to Margraf & Co GmbH (in liquidation), made by the company's liquidator on behalf of the heirs of art dealersJakob andRosa Oppenheimer. The panel found that the painting had been sold to an unknown buyer by the Berlin auction house ofPaul Graupe on 12 October 1935, as part of a "Jew auction", but that it was "not a sale that occurred as a result of Nazi persecution" as the auction was initiated by Margraf's bankers in order to settle an inheritance tax debt which pre-dated the Nazi rise to power.[3][4]
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