Pablo Picasso's "Madame Soler." The German state of Bavaria is refusing to return a $100 million Picasso portrait in its possession that was originally owned by the family of composer Felix Mendelssohn. The chef d’oeuvre, Madame Soler, had belonged to Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from the wealthy family of Jewish financiers and a relative of the 19th-century composer Felix Mendelssohn, but he sold the painting, along with four other paintings by Picasso, in 1934 as the Nazis came Read more [...]