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April 30, 2012

Wild Weekend with Wally—Part One

Self-Portrait, by Egon Schiele, 1912Source: Google Images No, it’s not what it sounds like. I did not spend a wild weekend with Wally. Portrait of Wally, […]

April 30, 2012

Wild Weekend with Wally-Part Two

Close-up view of “Portrait of Wally”Source: Google Images Andrew Shea, DirectorSource: Google Images The making of a documentary film on the fate of the “Portrait of […]

September 14, 2012

O Canada! Where did you go wrong?

What is the problem up there? Way back when, at the turn of the twenty-first century, an international conference was held in Ottawa hosted by the […]

December 5, 2012

MoMA gets a discount on German Expressionists

Cafe Couple, Otto DixSource: MoMA Want a great deal on a painting by German Expressionist Otto Dix? One such work–“Café Couple/Paar in Café”–belonged to noted German […]

July 1, 2013

1998: Year Zero of Art Restitution?

Highlights from that fateful year include, but are not limited to: -the seizure of two paintings by Egon Schiele at the Museum of Modern Art in […]

August 31, 2015

A small tribute to Charles Goldstein

Charles Goldstein by Marc Masurovsky Charles Goldstein, counsel to the Commission for Art Recovery and Ronald Lauder’s attorney, died on July 30, 2015. He was 78 […]

May 23, 2018

Why all the fuss about provenance research?

by Marc Masurovsky Up until the mid-to late 1990s, provenance research remained within the province of trained art historians working in cultural institutions where art objects […]

August 8, 2018

MoMA’s dalliances with the two portraits of Max Hermann Neisse by Georg Grosz

by Marc Masurovsky “Portrait of Max Hermann Neisse”, by Georg Grosz, 1925 In April 2009, the heirs of the German expressionist artist, Georg Grosz, filed an […]

November 5, 2018

Washington Principle #10: A Critique

by Marc Masurovsky [Editor’s note: Due to the momentous nature of the upcoming international conference in Berlin, Germany, on November 26-28, 2018 and entitled “20 years […]