Munch Masterpiece With Nazi Restitution Connections To Be Sold At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s is to offer ‘Dance On The Beach’ an important panel by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch It is estimated to fetch around £12-20m.
16 January 2023
Sotheby’s is to offer ‘Dance On The Beach’ an important panel by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch It is estimated to fetch around £12-20m.
16 January 2023
Piet Mondrian: PMA In Ownership Dispute – Banksy Releases T-Shirt To Support Colston Four – More Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Restitution
14 December 2021
David Nahmad has incurred another setback in his legal battle to keep a disputed Amedeo Modigliani painting titled ‘Seated Man with a Cane’ (1918).
22 April 2018
Germany’s longest-running legal court case involving Nazi-looted art has settled with the claimant.
27 July 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is in the process of being sued over ownership of Pablo Picasso’s painting “The… Read More
9 October 2016
The University of Oklahoma have agreed terms and settled a lawsuit over ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro stolen from a… Read More
24 February 2016
The saga of Cornelius Gurlitt’s ‘Munich Art Trove’ seems to go no and on. Literally. The collection was originally collated… Read More
24 March 2015
A long-standing restitution dispute between Germany’s Kunstsammlung NRW and the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim, regarding the… Read More
18 December 2014
Let’s face it everyone hates the Nazis! Even after 76 years the Third Reich still evokes a nauseating feeling amongst… Read More
27 August 2014
A new film covering the subject of Nazi looted art is about to go into pre-production in Hollywood. This time… Read More
6 April 2014
Tate Britain is to return a painting by Constable, which was looted from a Hungarian collector by the Nazis, during… Read More
29 March 2014
International pressure is mounting for Hungary to offer a settlement to the descendants of the Jewish industrialist Baron Mór Lipót… Read More
3 February 2013
A version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, which broke all auction records for a work of art when it was… Read More
14 October 2012
Boston Museum Of Fine Art Sets Example For Norton Simon Museum The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has agreed to… Read More
27 June 2011
Compensation to the family of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to sell a painting by Secessionist Artist, Egon… Read More
5 May 2011
Maria Altmann who in 2006 successfully reclaimed five paintings by Gustav Klimt, from Austrian museums that were seized by the Nazis in 1938, has died age 94.
12 February 2011
Stronger measures to return Nazi-looted art to its original owners will be called for by the UK Government at the first European conference dedicated to the issue in five years.
28 July 2017
A new bill to speed up the return of artwork stolen by the Nazis during WWII has passed the US Senate after its approval in the House of Representatives last week.
12 December 2016
Ted Cruz the US Republican Senator and hopeful in the next presidential election, has been joined by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chuck… Read More
10 April 2016
Charles Goldstein – a New York real estate lawyer describes as a ‘tenacious advocate’ for recovering art looted from Holocaust victims.
6 August 2015
London-based solicitor Christopher Marinello, working for the Rosenberg family, trying to retrieve a long-lost Matisse painting looted by the Nazis… Read More
25 March 2015
British actress and Dame, Helen Mirren expressed her support for the restitution of Nazi-looted art at the 65th Berlinale International… Read More
12 February 2015
The Rijksmuseumis in Amsterdam is among hundreds of public institutions assisting in the search for looted Nazi treasures stolen from… Read More
30 October 2013
France is set to release their long-awaited policy report on the restitution of cultural property—the guidelines for returning looted artworks from Nazi occupation and stolen artefacts from the colonial period.
4 May 2023
A local council partially disassembled a new Banksy mural installation in Margate celebrating Valentine’s Day as it contained a broken freezer deemed dangerous.
16 February 2023
Restitution is proving to be a complex and challenging problem for many museums and private collections. This week alone, several cases have been filed. Reputations that were once beyond question have now been brought into question.
25 January 2023
An important pastel by Edgar Degas looted by the Nazis in Paris in 1940 ‘Portrait of Gabrielle Diot’, 1890, owned by the renowned art dealer Paul Rosenberg is sought by the family for restitution.
31 October 2018
A painting stolen by the Nazis over 80 years ago by Lucas Cranach the Elder is to be auctioned at Christie’s.
21 March 2018
An exhibition of new work by Israeli/British artist Gideon Rubin, Black Book is the latest in a series of well-received shows curated by James Putnam.
13 February 2018
London’s National Gallery says it will not be giving the descendants of Henri Matisse’s model Greta Moll a work in their collection claimed… Read More
10 September 2016
Two of the most famous paintings in the world, 16th-century panels depicting Adam & Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder are… Read More
19 August 2016
The Oscar winning actress Dame Helen Mirren has testified before a US Senate committee to highlight the slow pace of restitution… Read More
8 June 2016