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May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011

Lessons of the May 6-7, 2011, World War II Provenance Research Seminar

An event such as this one does not happen very often, especially not in Washington, DC. Co-sponsored by the National Archives and the two leading museum […]
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011

Pearls of wisdom from the May 6-7, 2011 Provenance Research Seminar

“You can’t restitute if you don’t have good research,” Kaywin Feldman, AAMD Interesting comment in view of the fact that, traditionally, American museums are loath to […]
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011

On a more positive note…

Regardless of where the fracture lines are drawn in the art world over the questions of provenance, due diligence and restitution, the May 6-7, 2011, seminar […]
May 9, 2011
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011

More on restitution in postwar Italy

Renewed attention is being given to the scope and breadth of objects of art plundered by the Nazis and their allies which entered the art market […]
May 10, 2011
May 11, 2011
May 11, 2011

Goering’s dealers and collectors in Italy

Any provenance work pertaining to works and objects of art entering or leaving Italy during and after the Nazi era must cast a pall of suspicion […]
May 11, 2011
May 11, 2011
May 11, 2011

A “fair and just settlement” for a looted Schiele in Vienna?

Any public announcement of a settlement of a claim against the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, must be greeted with a hefty dose of skepticism. In […]
May 11, 2011
May 14, 2011
May 14, 2011

ERR database—Raoul Meyer, Pissarro, Modigliani, Soutine

You can never be too careful. Thanks to the watchful eye of a museum curator in Indiana, the information in the Jeu de Paume database concerning […]
May 14, 2011
May 16, 2011
May 16, 2011

At the National Gallery of Art with Paul Gauguin

Yellow ChristSource: Humanities Web Not everyone is a fan of Paul Gauguin, myself included. But his obsessive sense of esthetics concerning exotic women (read, Tahitian) blended […]
May 16, 2011
May 18, 2011
May 18, 2011

Silesian threads

I made two trips to Silesia—one in May 2009, focused mainly on Krakow, the other in January 2010, between Katowice and Gliwice. During the course of […]
May 18, 2011
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