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Robert Owen Lehmann is a thief by any other name. A few years back when Robert Owen Lehmann Jr was challenged about the possibly stolen status of a drawing his foundation was attempting to sell, Mr Lehmann, son of Robert Lehmann who had purchased the stolen drawing, was diligent and forthcoming in his attitude about the drawing. According to him, he “spent a good year trying to get those two parties and myself together to make some sort of equitable, fair division of the artwork,” because he has “ sympathy for the heirs whose relatives suffered at the hands of the Nazis ” The drawing in question, by the Austrian artist Egon Shiele, was actually being contested for as ‘stolen art’ by not one but two alleged owners/families, both in sudden, previously nonexistent claims prior to Mr Lehmann’s attempting to sell the drawing by auction. Mr Lehmann was nonetheless eager to acquiesce, to ensure the drawing is returned to whoever was the first owner. Meaning, of the two claimants, who was the...