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October 1, 2016

“The Actor,” by Pablo Picaso

by Marc Masurovsky The Actor, by Pablo Picasso. Saturday morning, 1 October 2016, brought news of a restitution claim filed by the Leffmann family heirs against […]

June 18, 2016

Highlights from Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held on 7 June 2016 regarding S. 2763.

loosely transcribed by Marc Masurovsky Note: The questions and answers might not have been rendered using those exact words. Hence, in many instances, the gist of […]

June 16, 2016

S. 2763: Restitution kabuki

an opinionated piece by Marc Masurovsky Note: The title was inspired by a close friend who is intimately involved in art restitution matters. The authors of […]

June 14, 2016

The American museums, the US Senate and the art market vs. Claimants

by Marc Masurovsky It’s hard to believe that we have reached this point again. The US Senate and its friends in the art market and in […]

June 3, 2016

Provenance research 2016

by Marc Masurovsky The “theory and practice of provenance research” seminar/workshop at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, has wrapped up its fourth […]

April 12, 2016

The Austrian problem with Schloss 91

by Marc Masurovsky Schloss 91, Portrait of a man, van Helst “Portrait of a Man”—by van Aelst, stolen from the Schloss family in German-occupied France by French […]

April 4, 2016

Provenance research on display–Part Three

by Marc Masurovsky This is the third installment in a series of articles on provenance research as presented to the general and specialized public through digital […]

April 4, 2016

Provenance research on display–Part Two

by Marc Masurovsky How is “provenance research” defined? Some institutions stress the linguistic roots of the word “provenance.” The Getty Museum teaches us that the word […]

March 31, 2016

Provenance research on display—Part One

by Marc Masurovsky Twenty years ago, on December 3, 1998, at the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, representatives of more than forty countries and a handful […]