CPA News
Was Kimbell statue hiding a sordid sales history?
29th Jun, 2011Robert Edsel, author of Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History was flipping though photographic archives when he came across what he calls "a smoking-gun photo." It showed the Kim... Click for more...
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Reaches Restitution Deal
27th Jun, 2011The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston said it would pay an unspecified amount to the heir of an art dealer who was killed at Auschwitz and will keep a 17th-century Dutch painting in its collection that was once owned by the dealer and likely seized by the ... Click for more...
Supreme Court won't hear looted-art claim against Norton Simon
27th Jun, 2011The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to take up an appeal from Marei Von Saher, who is trying to wrest a prized, 480-year-old “Adam and Eve” diptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Norton Simon Museum, where the paintings have hung sinc... Click for more...
Record £24m sale ends family's battle over art looted by Nazis
23rd Jun, 2011Sotheby's set a £24.68 million record for artist Egon Schiele to close a 10-year scandal over a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. 'Houses With Washing Lines', 1914, one of Schiele's masterpieces, was sent to auction in London b... Click for more...
How Obama ‘rescued’ Kenya’s stolen art
21st Jun, 2011US President Barack Obama intervened to have an American university return artefacts stolen from Kenya. The theft of vigango was widespread as “there are lots of them in universities, museums and even homes in the US, United Kingdom, Italy and elsewh... Click for more...
Vienna's Leopold Settles With Heir on Nazi-Looted Paintings
20th Jun, 2011Vienna's Leopold Museum said it paid an undisclosed amount to keep two paintings by Anton Romako in a settlement with the heir of a Jewish construction entrepreneur whose art collection was seized by the Gestapo before 1941.Read more: http://www.sfgate... Click for more...
Vienna museum told to return Nazi-looted art
13th Jun, 2011An art commission charged with returning Nazi-plundered works has recommended a Vienna museum hand over five drawings by Schiele to the descendants of a Jewish man. The drawings by Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) belonged to Viennese man Kar... Click for more...
Decades-Long Dispute Over Ownership of Holy Text Archive Leads Russia To Nix Art Loans
18th May, 2011Russia has frozen art loans to major American institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Houston Museum of Natural Science over fears its cultural property could be seized.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjOYMzhrF3... Click for more...
Archive of artworks stolen by Nazis goes online
5th May, 2011Thanks to a deal between some of the world's leading archives and museums, an online catalogue of documents has been created to help families, historians and researchers track down artworks stolen by the Nazis. Under an agreement signed by organisation... Click for more...
Rutger's Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
24th Jan, 2011The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Unversity, has returned a rare early 16th- Century portrait of a young man, by the German Artist Hans Baldung Grien, to Simon Goodman, grandson of Friedrich and Louise Gutmann, Holocaust victims and previous owners of the Click for more...
Switzerland publishes report on looted art
17th Jan, 2011The Swiss Culture office says museums need to intensify provenance research, in a report on looted art from the Nazi era. Click for more...
Holland Returns a Florid Brueghel Allegory, Once Looted by Nazis
18th Nov, 2010The Dutch government has returned Brueghel the Younger's 'Allegory of Earth and Water' — also known as 'Allegory of Life and Water' — to its rightful owners after discovering that the work had been stolen by Nazis during World War II. http://www.ar... Click for more...
British Library returns Beneventan Missal
15th Sep, 2010A 12th Century manuscript which was housed in the British Library is to be returned to Italy because it was looted during World War II. Click for more...
California Lawmakers approve Bill on Stolen Art Claims
1st Sep, 2010California lawmakers gave final approval Monday night to a bill that would extend the time period in which people can sue museums to try and recover what they believe are stolen works of art. Click for more...
Endowment funds flourish in France
16th Aug, 2010A French governmental provision enacted in 2008, known as a fonds de dotation, is helping museums raise funds privately. Click for more...
Museum Wiesbaden restitutes Dutch Baroque Painting
11th Aug, 2010On Tuesday, the 10th August 2010, the Museum Wiesbaden restituted the painting attributed to Dutch Baroque painter Pieter de Grebber (1600-1653) titled "Double Portrait of a young couple" to the heirs of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. Click for more...
UCL Institute of Archaeology returns ancient objects to Thailand
10th Aug, 2010Sixteen objects, thought to originate from the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Ban Chiang in Thailand, will be retunred to the Thia Department of Fine Arts by the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Click for more...
Leopold Museums pays $19 million to keep Egon Schiele's portrait of 'Wally'
21st Jul, 2010Austria's Leopold Musuem paid $19 million to the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray to settle a decades-long dispute over Egon Schiele's portrait of his lover Wally, stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. Click for more...
Ulster Museum wins £100, 000 Art Fund Prize
30th Jun, 2010The Ulster Museum in Belfast has been announced as the winner of this year's 100,000 pound Art Fund Prize. Click for more...
Royal Cornwall Museum
30th Jun, 2010Museum makes £2 million from picture sale but funds still fall short. Click for more...
Stolen Caravaggio is recovered
29th Jun, 2010A Caravaggio painting considered to be the most valuable work of art stolen in Ukraine was recovered in Germany. Click for more...
