May 3, 2011

An Interactive sneak peek at the schedule for May 6-7, 2011, World War II Provenance Research Seminar in Washington, DC

A New Era of Collaboration and Digitized Resources:  World War II Provenance Research Seminar May 6-7, 2011 United States National Archives 700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Washington, […]
May 3, 2011

What’s up with Norway?

On the face of it, the Norwegian government is behaving most appropriately. It has imposed a strict bank on all imports of cultural artifacts whose provenance […]
May 2, 2011

Letter to Marilyn Henry concerning the return of ‘Portrait of Wally’ by Egon Schiele

Note: This letter was sent to the late Marilyn Henry in an effort to articulate complicated thoughts pertaining to the unsettling resolution of a decades-old battle to […]
May 1, 2011

The Nikolsburg hoard revisited

When last mentioned on April 25, 2011, the Nikolsburg Castle nestled in the town of Mikulov in south Moravia, close to the Austrian border, had served […]
May 1, 2011

The strange odyssey of Mme. Stumpf and her daughter

Madame Stumpf and Her DaughterSource: NGA The National Gallery of Washington in Washington, DC, holds more than a dozen paintings that were once looted by the […]
April 28, 2011

Seligmann and Richard Colnaghi

Richard Colnaghi is undeniably one of the most important dealers in the global art market for museum-quality Old Masters. In going through one of his catalogues, […]
April 26, 2011

ERR database—Georges Bernheim

Georges Bernheim was a noted gallery owner and international art expert in pre-1940 Paris. Working under the label of the ‘Galerie Georges Bernheim,’ he had exhibited […]
April 26, 2011

Open letter to the Uniform Law Commission of the National Conference of Uniform State Laws

HOLOCAUST ART RESTITUTION PROJECT (HARP)  http://plundered-art.blogspot.com April 25, 2011 John A. Sebert, Executive Director Uniform Law Commission Dear Mr. Sebert: As co-founder of the Holocaust Art […]
April 26, 2011

The Herzog paintings—so close, and yet so far.

You might recall that in July 2010, the Commission for Art Recovery (CAR) filed a lawsuit in an American Federal Court against the government of the […]