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The heirs of a Jewish family are suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, claiming a Vincent van Gogh oil painting it sold was looted from their relatives by the Nazis.
The lawsuit claims that Hedwig and Frederick Stern bought the painting, titled Olive Picking, in 1935. The same year, the couple was forced to flee their home in Munich, and were never reunited with the painting.
The Met bought the piece in 1956 for $125,000, and later sold it to a Greek shippin
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