Pick of the week: Restituted Swiss self-portrait lights up saleroom
Berlin auction house Grisebach posted an auction record for the Swiss artist Karl Stauffer-Bern (1857-91) on May 29 when it sold a self-portrait which had been recently restituted to the family of its original Jewish owners.
The signed 10 × 9in (26 × 23cm) pencil sketch on brown paper titled Selbstbildnis mit Zigarette (S…