Paul Rosenberg

April 10, 2011

Picasso at the Jeu de Paume

At least 86 works by Pablo Picasso fell into the hands of the Nazis’ plundering units headed by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and were taken […]
April 10, 2011

Henri Matisse in Vichy France

by Marc Masurovsky As in the case of Pablo Picasso and many other eminent artists plying their creative streak in France, Henri Matisse chose to remain […]
April 25, 2011

Looted art in Italy

Although the more than 48 postwar Italian governments have been focused largely on what the Germans removed from Italy during their two-year occupation of the country, […]
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 […]
June 5, 2011

Van Gogh’s 1889 depiction of his mutilated self smoking a pipe–PR 144

In a catalogue of works from the private collection of Mary and Leigh Block of Chicago, IL, the first painting that one sees is an iconic […]
July 15, 2011

The Wildenstein reality check

by Marc Masurovsky [This article was updated on May 25, 2018.] Guy Wildenstein sur France 24 pour Sarko by ump Guy Wildenstein found himself in a […]
January 30, 2015

A new art loss database, ArtClaim, takes its maiden voyage in London

by Angelina Giovani, HARP correspondent, London (UK)* On the evening of Monday, January 19, 2015 the London-based Art Recovery Group used the Royal Institution of Great […]
April 23, 2015

Kafka meets Gurlitt

by Marc Masurovsky It’s fair to say that, ever since the revelation of the existence of the Cornelius Gurlitt collection in November 2013, the German federal […]
March 17, 2016

Dessus de porte

by Marc Masurovsky Source: NARA On December 3, 2007, Christie’s Paris sold a painting by Marie Laurencin, entitled “L’embarcadère’ [Haut de Porte].” As is usual with […]