provenance research

August 25, 2015
August 25, 2015

Interview with Simon Goodman, author of “The Orpheus Clock”

 Interview conducted by Angelina Giovani [Editor’s note] Simon Goodman is the grandson of Friedrich Gutmann, a Dutch Jewish banker whose possessions were plundered during the German […]
August 25, 2015
December 9, 2015
December 9, 2015

Lessons from “The Orpheus Clock”

An opinion piece by Angelina Giovani The Orpheus Clock was one of my favorite books of 2015. Since the book came out last August, it has […]
December 9, 2015
January 25, 2016
January 25, 2016

Transparency

by Marc MasurovskyTransparency is the condition of being transparent.Synonyms can be lucidity,  clearness,  translucence.Transparency can be purity like the crystal clarity of the water.Antonyms are murkiness […]
January 25, 2016
January 25, 2016
January 25, 2016

The Gurlitt Task Force “fact sheet”

by Marc Masurovsky The Gurlitt Task Force made a three-page fact sheet available to the general public dated 12 January 2016. Since the discovery of Cornelius […]
January 25, 2016
January 28, 2016
January 28, 2016

The Knoedler forgery scam trial is now on

by Marc MasurovskyTwelve years ago, the now defunct elite New York art gallery, Knoedler and Company, which used to cater to the aristocracy of Europe and […]
January 28, 2016
February 18, 2016
February 18, 2016

About due diligence

by Marc Masurovsky An art object cannot exist unless someone has created it. That is a self-evident truth. Once the object becomes the subject of a […]
February 18, 2016
February 19, 2016
February 19, 2016

An opinionated exercise

by Marc Masurovsky Disclaimer: This deconstructive undertaking is not meant to judge a person’s good will, intentions, or motives, nor a person’s qualifications, merits, and contributions. […]
February 19, 2016
February 26, 2016
February 26, 2016

Scenarios of discovery: claimants stumbling onto their missing objects

by Marc Masurovsky I won’t name any names here, it’s better that way. But rest assured that the following four scenarios are based on real and […]
February 26, 2016
March 31, 2016
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 […]
March 31, 2016
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