Stolen £5m Francis Bacon Painting Recovered by Spanish Police
Spanish Police have recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, valued at €5m (£4.2m), which was stolen from a Madrid home in 2015.
26 May 2024
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Lost £55m Gustav Klimt Masterpiece To Be Auctioned in Vienna
Vienna — A long-lost painting by the renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, believed to have vanished for a century, has… Read More
26 January 2024
Asante Gold: UK Agrees To Loan Looted Crown Jewels To Ghana
The United Kingdom is set to return some of Ghana’s revered “crown jewels” more than a century after being looted…
25 January 2024
More Restitution Problems For Picasso, Van Gogh And British Museum Antiquities
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
Otto Dix Watercolours From The Gurlitt Hoard Auctioned
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard (“Schwabing Art Trove”) hit the headlines worldwide, two important watercolours by Otto Dix will go under the hammer at Ketterer Kunst
13 May 2022
Stolen Gustav Klimt Portrait Thieves Confess
A stolen multi-million-pound painting discovered hidden in a false wall has been confirmed as an authentic Gustav Klimt original, Italian authorities have confirmed. The canvas was taken nearly 23 years ago.
19 January 2020
Turner Prize 2019: Sharing But Who’s Caring – Edward Lucie-Smith
The decision made by this year’s four Turner Prize 2019 nominees to share-and-share-alike has had a mixed reception from the press.
5 December 2019
Stolen Joshua Reynolds Painting In Japanese Museum Was Sold By Sotheby’s
A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, stolen from a UK stately home in 1984, has been discovered in the collection of a Japanese museum.
6 September 2019
Stolen £40m Picasso Will Saudi Billionaire or Insurers Get The Portrait
A Picasso painting valued at up to £40m has been recovered by the Dutch art sleuth Arthur Brand.
1 April 2019
Nazi-Looted Degas: Investigators Seek Information From Art Dealer Mathias F. Hans
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
Stolen Edgar Degas Painting Worth £800k Found On Bus Near Paris
A valuable pastel on canvas by the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas titled Les Choristes/The Chorus stolen from a Marseille museum in 2009, has been discovered on a bus close to Paris. It was found during a random search, according to officials.
24 February 2018
Did Antony Gormley Deliberately Appropriate This William Cobbing Clay Performance Piece?
I was installing my exhibition at Museum Jorn, Denmark, a week or so ago when I started getting a steady stream of emails and Twitter posts to my account
14 February 2018
Was This Jackie Kennedy Portrait Stolen From The Infamous Grey Gardens?
The ownership of a period portrait of Jackie Kennedy Onassis in the possession of an East Hampton, NY art dealer is being challenged in court by the estate of the former First Lady’s cousin, Edith Beale.
13 February 2018
Stolen Hans Hofmann Paintings Recovered – Scandalous Inside Job Exposed
Part of a collection of Hans Hofmann paintings stolen in 2004 from a New York City-based fine art storage facility has been recovered. Working with the NYPD and the FBI, Art Recovery International negotiated the release of one of the paintings.
26 December 2017