Mar del Plata, Argentina’s leading seaside resort and a major fishing hub, hosts 682,605 residents (2022) and sits in General Pueyrredón district. The city has moved into the headlines with a Nazi-era art restitution deal: an Italian portrait looted during World War II is approved for return to the heir.
The Portrait of a Lady, looted from Jacques Goudstikker’s Dutch-Jewish collection during the 1940 invasion, has been identified in a Mar del Plata home. An agreement will return the painting to Marei von Saher, with Kadgien and Cortegoso avoiding trial and under supervision; funds will support Argentine hospitals. The case highlights a decades-long search for looted art and ongoing investigations into Nazi-era plunder.