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
The disputed Lucas Cranach the Elder’s paintings of Adam and Eve, a highlight of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California
31 July 2018
Two works on paper by the Secessionist artist Egon Schiele stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis in the late 1930s have been ordered to be restituted to the heirs of an Austrian Holocaust victim.
6 April 2018
Liz Taylor’s Van Gogh Vue de l’asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy is back on the market again after selling in an auction at Christie’s in February 2012 for £10,121,250.
22 March 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
The United States has quit UNESCO over what they call an ‘anti-Israel bias.’ The US is pulling out of the UN’s cultural organisation accusing the agency, known for designating world heritage sites such as Syria’s Palmyra and Stonehenge of a continued bias at the organisation.”
12 October 2017
It is easy to dismiss the world of the ancestors and appeasing gods in a post-scientific Western society. Less so when burdened with a culture and history as oppressive as that of the white South African. Our shared past cannot simply be ignored, even if we were mere witnesses to it and can nurse a new narrative response to it. In a small selection of works currently on view at Ma-Wah, Continent, by artist Carla Raffinetti, invites us to reflect on the past as we suckle, forging our way out of the abyss.
10 July 2017
A Canadian gallery has brought a federal complaint against a New York art dealer alleging he tried to give works by the American ‘Pop’ artist Jasper Johns official provenances.
26 February 2017
Oh, what a year 2016 has been! Many of us won’t be sorry to see the end of it, although not to be overly pessimistic, 2017 will certainly have its challenges with both the Brexit economy and the new US President. Yes, the one with the bad haircut! On the Art front there was plenty to keep us entertained, amused and informed and here are the year’s highs and lows:
29 December 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
Artlyst looks back on the innovators who passed away in 2015. These are the people who have made an outstanding contribution to… Read More
1 January 2016
A Nazi-looted painting by Hans Wertinger has been restituted to the heirs of the Jewish art dealers Isaac Rosenbaum and… Read More
18 August 2015
Sotheby’s June 2015 Evening Sale Impressionist & Modern Art sale has achieved £178.6m / $ 282.1m / €250.9m. This is the Second-Highest Total for… Read More
24 June 2015
Leading the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening sale is one of the most important paintings by Kazimir Malevich to ever appear at auction. Suprematism,… Read More
18 June 2015
An exceptional painting by Max Liebermann discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Home and successfully restituted to its rightful heirs, is to… Read More
22 May 2015
The German Minister for Culture and the Media, Monika Grütters, has announced that a fourth artwork from the Gurlitt trove… Read More
9 April 2015
A masterpiece by El Greco has been returned to the rightful owners by The Commission for Looted Art in Europe, and Art… Read More
24 March 2015
Several art works and objects seized in 1938 following the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany from Baron… Read More
12 March 2015
New evidence has come to light in the search for a lost Arnold Böcklin masterpiece from a highly unlikely source,… Read More
16 February 2015
Eight artworks have been restituted to the heirs of the Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,… Read More
15 February 2015
It has been an incredible year for art scandals but despite the deception the art market has grown a wapping… Read More
28 December 2014
Woman in Gold is a new film starring Helen Mirren based on the restitution of a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt…. Read More
23 December 2014
After the Kunstmuseum Bern has released a preliminary list that began to itemise some of the works in their controversial… Read More
5 December 2014
The Kunstmuseum Bern has released a preliminary list that begins to itemise some of the works in their controversial Gurlitt… Read More
28 November 2014
A Bern patron has pledged a “seven-figure sum” to help the Kunstmuseum Bern create a research unit dedicated to the… Read More
27 November 2014
Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts Bern), Switzerland has agreed, today, to accept artworks from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt’s… Read More
24 November 2014
In the ongoing saga of the ‘Munch Art Trove’ and the Kunstmuseum Bern is about to decide whether or not… Read More
20 November 2014
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has been criticised by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) over their lack of… Read More
15 November 2014
The German Government has approved funds for a center to search for and return art looted by the Nazis. The… Read More
4 November 2014
Jewish World Congress president Ronald Lauder has publicly threatened the Kunstmuseum Bern with an “avalanche” of lawsuits if the institution… Read More
3 November 2014
The Badische Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany has recently announced that it has identified seven works of art within its collection,… Read More
28 October 2014
