Since the seizure of “Portrait of Wally” in early January 1998, provenance research has lost its innocence. Battle lines have been drawn between defendants upholding their […]
by Marc Masurovsky According to the most recent TEFAF Art Market survey, the global art market has exceeded 51 billion euros in value for 2014. Half […]
by Marc Masurovsky In an ideal world, the cost of seeking restitution of a Nazi-looted art object should not be a hindrance to achieving justice. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Marc Masurovsky [The following presentation was delivered at the annual conference of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP), which took place in Washington, […]
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 […]