Looted painting to go under the hammer

A masterpiece of 20th-century art looted from its Jewish owners by the Nazis is expected to fetch up to £7m (€10.2m) at a London auction in June.

Sotheby’s said today that the landscape by Austrian artist Egon Schiele is being sold by the heirs of its original owners. It was returned to them recently after spending half a century hanging in the Neue Galerie in Linz, Austria.