There is extensive domestic and international news coverage of the return to the heirs of art dealer Max Stern of the 17th-century painting, “Young Man As Bacchus”, by Dutch painter Jan Franse Verzijl. The heirs, Concordia, McGill and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, are represented by the Max and Iris Stern Foundation and the Max Stern Art Restitution project, whose leader, senior director of Urban and Cultural Affairs Clarence Epstein, is quoted extensively in much of the news coverage. “Young Man As Bacchus” is among the estimated hundreds of thousands of pieces of art looted by the Nazis during the Second World War, with about 400 works still missing. The recovery of the painting is reported by the Wall Street Journal (no link available), UK Daily Mail, Deutsche Welle, CBC Montreal 11 pm news (video, starting at the 8:32 mark, and text), New York Post, Radio-Canada.ca (reprised by Huffington Post Québec) , CTV News Montreal (video and text, Epstein appearing at the 1:13 mark, reposted by The Loop), Montreal Gazette (reprised by Canada.com), Montreal Gazette e-edition, La Presse +, Le Journal de Montréal, CBSnews.com, Israel National News, Agence France-Presse (picked up by Le Devoir, TVAnouvelles.ca, Le Point, France, El Pais, in Spanish, Zeit, in German, Yahoo! News), Associated Press (picked up by Boston Globe, NBCboston.com, San Fransisco Gate, GlobalNews.ca, Northumberland News, Durham Region, 570news.com, AP raw video, NBCwasington.com Standard Times, The Korea Herald, AuburnPub.com, Caledonian Record, New Zealand News Now, Voice of Alexandria, KDWN.com, NECN.com), Art Daily, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and dozens of others. Clarence Epstein is interviewed for the Radio Canada Première Chaîne program, 'Le 15-18'. Finally, the news is reported in a release issued by the FBI in New York, whose investigation led to the recovery of the painting.
There was additional coverage by: Le Figaro, The China Post, World Israel News, The Canadian Jewish News, Global News (audiovisual montage and text story), KulturRadio.de (in German), AustralianBroadcastingCorporation.net, Yahoo! News, True Viral News, Norfolk Daily News, The Art Newspaper, Art Fix Daily, Art Net News, SuedDeutsche.de (in German), The Jewish Press, The Suburban and Newfoundland TV 'First Edition' (at the 13:10 mark). Clarence Epstein was also interviewed on CTV News Channel (no link available) and CBC Montreal radio's 'Homerun' (no link available).