A painting that was seized by the Nazis and only recently returned to the Jewish owner's heirs is going on auction.
Max Liebermann's "Two Riders on a Beach" was discovered in 2012 in the long-hidden art trove hoarded by German collector Cornelius Gurlitt. Gurlitt died last year and the painting was one of the first from his trove to be released back to the heirs of their rightful owners.
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Two-Riders1.jpg" caption="A painting by German artist Max Liebermann 'Zwei Reiter am Strande' ("Two Horsemen at the Beach")." credit="Sotheby's/Twitter" alt="Two Riders"]
David Toren, the great-nephew of the painting's original owner, said he and other heirs have decided to sell the painting so it can "pass into a new phase of its story."
Sotheby's estimated Friday that the Liebermann painting could sell for up to $850,000 when it goes on auction in London on June 24.