Provenance
4000 Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Into US By Hobby Lobby Are Returned To Iraq,
The event marked the end of to the international investigation of black-market antiquities and the evangelical Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby and collectors of biblical material who opened the Museum of the Bible in Washington last November. The museum was not involved in the settlement, and the returned objects were not part of […]
Police Raid Private Homes In Case Of Belgian Exhibition Of Russian Avant-Garde Fakes
“Homes across Belgium have been raided by police investigating allegations that counterfeit Russian avant garde works were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. The display of 26 pieces, loaned by the Russian businessman Igor Toporovski, was terminated by the gallery in January after experts claimed it was full of fakes. The museum’s […]
Remains stolen from burial caves return to Hawaii after more than a century
(United States of America; Germany)
KHON, 26th Oct 2017.
"The remains were stolen between 1896 and 1902 and sold directly to the Museum of Ethnology in Dresden."
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Louvre Launches €10 Million Fundraising Campaign To Get Illuminated Manuscript Back From Britain
The 16th-century Book of Hours that belonged to King François I has been in the UK since 1720; the export ban placed on it last year has now expired, with no potential British buyer having come forward.
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Dealer Sues Matisse’s Heirs Over Stolen $4.5M Cut-Outs (What’s French For ‘Chutzpah’?)
The case concerns two works, White Palm on Red and Green Snail on Blue, that were among hundreds stolen from a cache of works belonging to one of Matisse’s sons stored at a Paris warehouse shortly after that son died in 1989. Many of those works were recovered; these two turned up at Sotheby’s Paris […]
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A Painting Of James I’s Lover, Long Thought To Be A Rubens Copy, Turns Out To Be The Original
This is what happens when you let dirt – and overpainting – obscure the original.
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National Gallery wins legal battle over Henri Matisse’s Portrait of Greta Moll
The museum and Britain were shielded by sovereign immunity and that the grandchildren had waited too long to bring the case.
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