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Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Thanks to a surprising coincidence, the Canadian museum has acquired a magnificent painting by Gerrit van Honthorst at the same time as it returned a work by the same artist to its owners after realizing it had been looted from a Jewish family, (...)
The keys to Algiers, which the President of the French Republic was supposed to give Abdelaziz Bouteflika on his upcoming trip to Algeria next 19 and 20 December 2012
During a recent exhibition highlighting Algeria, the honorary keys to Algiers which Dey Hussein handed over to the French army after the fall of the city on 5 July 1830, thus belonging to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris, were on view and in fact (...)
Stolen from the Musée de la Faïence in Nevers on 12 January 1974, a painting by Francis Picabia entitled The River : Banks of the Douceline at Munot near La Charité-sur-Loire resurfaced in June 2011 during an auction in London. After joining the (...)
We had already told the story here of the miniature by Marie-Gabrielle Capet representing the sculptor Houdon, which resurfaced at the Hôtel Drouot. As we pointed out at the time, there was no doubt that this was indeed the one stolen from the (...)
Between March and June 1942, the painting collection owned by Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, who had passed away in 1940, was dispersed at auction in Paris against de wishes of his family which had fled the Nazi persecutions. The documents from (...)
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs can finally exhibit a piano sculpted by Rupert Carabin in 1900, for the first time today although it had been originally donated in 1938. A superb example of Art Nouveau furniture, this instrument was produced for (...)
The Portrait of the Countess Thekla Ludolf by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, also known as Young Woman with Drawing Board, had become one of his most popular works since its acquisition in 1940 by the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. However, (...)
Libération today revealed an affair about which we ourselves had been preparing an article in the last few days. A painting by Nicolas Tournier currently being shown by Mark Weiss at the Salon Paris, which had been presented at two Maastricht (...)
The outcome has been settled rapidly, more so than expected. The owner of the Degas painting found at a Sotheby’s auction in New York and which we were the first to announce
The decision made by Nicolas Sarkozy during his trip to Seoul for the G20 summit will have far reaching consequences for national heritage, adding to those already endangering it.
When preparing our article on the database for works stolen by the Germans during WWII which went through the Jeu de Paume, that is the ERR base, we tried to find one or two unpublished paintings. In the process, we quickly came across a (...)
The ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), directed by Alfred Rosenberg, was a major participant between 1940 and 1944 in the looting of Jewish art organized by the Nazis.
The Museum in Douai was destroyed in 1944 along with part of the holdings (many sculptures, ceramics, the ethnographic collection…). Before then, it had already undergone extensive looting in 1918 due to its location in the occupied war zone. (...)
In 2006, there had been a restitution of 202 paintings considered to have been looted by the Nazis to Jacques Goudstikker’s heirs (see news item of 11/2/06 on
The Young Girl with the Straw Hat), considered to be Friedrich von Amerling’s masterpiece work, is very popular in Germanic countries, often reproduced on different objects, as well as on book (...)
Acquired in 1708 for the princes’ collections in Saxony (under Augustus II the Strong), inventory number A701 in the inaugural catalogue for the gallery in 1722
Dutch museums, which recently returned 202 paintings to Jacques Goudstikker’s heirs see La Tribune de l'Art
