'Private collection, France, and by descent until,
Anonymous sale; Ader, Paris, 21 June 2022, lot 13, as Flemish School, 17th century, Circle of Van Dyck'
This very light provenance statement for a van Dyck ptg worth $3-500,000 makes us wonder....
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French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati pays tribute to the family of Grégoire Schusterman during a restitution ceremony.
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Chile hands to Morocco 400 million-year-old fossils middle-east-online.com/en/chile-hands…

Sweden to return 39 artefacts to Benin guardian.ng/news/nigeria/s…

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in November 1899 and until 1941)
A. & R. Ball, New York (acquired by 1959
Silly question:
if the painting was sold in 1941, how did the painting survive the war without being seized?
Just curious.

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Maybe Ms. Thyssen-Bornemisza should sit down with the Spanish government and figure out how to restitute the claimed Pissarro currently displayed in the museum bearing her family's name. You know, do the right thing...
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Fernand Léger painting at Sotheby's:
Galerie de l’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired directly from the artist  circa  1918)
Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired after 1953

How, when and from whom did this painting reach Mr. Nathan?
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Eugene Spiro 1919 work:
Christie’s, Amsterdam 8 June 2000, lot 258;
Ahlden Castle, Ahlden 29 September 2001, lot 1756;
Private property, Lower Saxony;
Private property, Southern Germany, by succession to the present owners.
A provenance we love to hate.
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Rudolf Leopold Collection, Vienna;
Serge Sabarsky Collection/Asset, New York, acquired from the aforementioned in the 1960s;
Collection/Foundation Vally Sabarsky, New York.
Where did Dr. Leopold acquire this Schiele work?
His reputation precedes him.
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Pissarro offered at Christie's:
Dr. George Viau, Paris; sale, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 21-22 March 1907, lot 62.
Gustave Cahen, Paris
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Hirschl opened its doors in 1952. Where was the painting before that?

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Lucienne Dixon, American citizen born in Brooklyn, NY, joined the French resistance during WWII, was arrested and deported to Ravensbruck.
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Nothing impressive about it. Even the antiquities seemed to have been removed from backroom drawers. Just a handful of works stood out as well as Japanese and Korean artists whose presence was definitely refreshing. Exception was definitely Isamo Noguchi.

1934 Eugene Spiro painting offered in Bristol auction. The seller's family acquired this and other Spiro works to help fund Spiro's transit to safe havens outside of Nazi Germany. Spiro ended up in New York.
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New Yorker magazine takes on the British Museum.
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Preliminary lineup for ARCA's annual art crime conference in Amelia, Umbria, Italy
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Is this the future? Using the Washington Principles as an insurance policy to sell works not proven to have been looted--a 'just in case' approach? A total joke which makes a mockery of restitution. A boondoggle if there ever was one!
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Unfortunately so...!

Moscow art world falls under Russian State's hammer.
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Looted Monet painting recycled by MS Rau of New Orleans is seized by the FBI and returned to rightful owners.
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Fascinating history:
'Erih Šlomović, Paris Dane Reichsman, Zagreb (acquired by 1940) Confiscated by the Germans during WWII in 1942, placed on deposit to The National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb Restituted to the family of Dane Reichsman in 2023'
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