A long-lost sketch for one of the most famous French paintings of the late 19th century has been seized by police from an art dealer in Paris. The preliminary study by the pointillist artist Georges Seurat, painted on the lid of a cigar box, was assumed to have been stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War.

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