Vienna – A stolen Gustav Klimt painting worth £26m plus that was confiscated by the Nazis must be returned to the heirs of a Canadian Jewish family. It has been in the collection of a well known Austrian museum (the Museum of Modern Arts in Saltbu…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Reaches Purchase Agreement for 17th-Century Tapestries
BOSTON, MA.- Provenance research conducted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has resulted in new discoveries about the history of ownership of four 17th-century tapestries in the MFA’s collection. The Museum’s research revealed that …
Dalí by Halsman Presents a Selection of Eighty-Eight Photographs of Salvador Dalí
FIGUERES.- The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí inaugurated Dalí by Halsman, this year’s temporary exhibition at the Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol, which will be on show until 31 December 2011, when the house-museum is closed to the public until the f…
Hungarian Government Asks United States Court to Reject Looted Art Lawsuit
BUDAPEST (AP).- The Hungarian government on Wednesday asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by the heirs of a prominent Jewish collector who are seeking the return of art worth over $100 million seized during the Holocaust. The Ministry of National D…
Court Denies Heirs’ Claims Over Stolen World War II Art
NASHVILLE (AP).- A federal appeals court has dismissed claims against the German government by heirs of an art dealer whose collection was seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II. Fred Westfield, a retired Nashville professor, fil…
Rutger’s Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On Friday, January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University handed over a rare early 16th-century portrait by the German artist Hans Baldung Grien to Simon Goodman, the Los Angeles-based grandson of Friedrich and Loui…
Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On Friday, January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University handed over a rare early 16th-century portrait by the German artist Hans Baldung Grien to Simon Goodman, the Los Angeles-based grandson of Friedrich and Loui…
Porcelain Masterpiece to Be Returned to Heirs of Former German Prime Minister
NEW YORK, NY.- Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation, the United States has entered into a settlement agreement with the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio that provides for the retu…
Porcelain Masterpiece to Be Returned to Heirs of Former German Prime Minister
NEW YORK, NY.- Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation, the United States has entered into a settlement agreement with the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio that provides for the retu…
Picasso Auction from the Collection of His Longtime Chauffeur Canceled Amid Mystery
PARIS (AP).- A Paris auctioneer called off the scheduled sale Thursday of a trove of drawings Picasso gave his longtime chauffeur, after a separate cache of previously unknown Picassos turned up in an electrician’s garage — a revelation that stun…