Seated Man with a Cane is a 1918 oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
[2] According to Maestracci, the painting was taken from his grandfather, Jewish Parisian art dealer Oscar Stettiner, by the Nazis during the German occupation of France.
[3] In 1946, Oscar Stettiner filed a claim to recover the painting, but the French authorities were ultimately unable to find it.
[1] According to the Panama Papers released in 2016, "David Nahmad, the family leader, has been the company’s sole owner since January 2014”.
[7] In the January 2020 edition of the Art Newspaper new evidence is referred to with respect to a 1950 document, which contains a photograph of the painting on one side and the words "stolen" and "Stettiner family" on the reverse.