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Monet, Stradivarius Among Highlights of Huguette Clark Estate Sale
ArtfixDaily / April 22nd, 2014
A Monet Waterlilies painting not exhibited since 1926 and a Stradivarius violin found hidden in a vacant home are among the treasures to be offered at auction from the estate of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark starting next month.
Gurlitt Strikes Deal on Nazi-Looted Art Restitution
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2014
Germany announced on Monday that Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, has agreed to a plan for the possible restitution of stolen artworks.
Joslyn Art Museum Discovers Original Rembrandt in Storage
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2014
A painting long-ago relegated to storage has been newly authenticated as a work by Rembrandt. In the collection of the Josyln Art Museum in Omaha, Neb., for 72 years...
Stolen French Masterworks Found in Autoworker's Kitchen
ArtfixDaily / April 2nd, 2014
Two paintings by French masters Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard have been recovered in Italy after they were reported stolen from a London residence in 1970. Italy's Culture Ministry unveiled...
Poland Gets Looted Guardi Painting Back from Germany
ArtfixDaily / March 31st, 2014
A painting by 18th-century Venetian artist Francesco Guardi that was stolen by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's 'Fuehrer Museum' was returned by Germany to Poland on Monday.
Major Oil by Monet Part of Newly-Found Gurlitt Art Trove
ArtfixDaily / March 30th, 2014
An oil painting by Claude Monet of London's Waterloo Bridge is among 180 artworks recently uncovered in Austria as part of the Nazi-looted art investigation centered around Cornelius Gurlitt.
German Recluse to Return Nazi-looted Artwork
ArtfixDaily / March 27th, 2014
The man who hoarded some 1,400 artworks in his Munich apartment and in an Austrian home for decades has agreed to return pieces looted by the Nazis to the owners or owners' heirs, say his lawyers. Octogenarian Cornelius Gurlitt will return a Matisse to...
Rembrandt Painting Stolen in 1999 Recovered
ArtfixDaily / March 25th, 2014
Fifteen years ago, thieves took Rembrandt's "Child with a Soap Bubble" from a French museum. Two men, aged 44 and 51, have now been arrested for the theft after...
Contested van Gogh Painting Will Stay at Yale
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2014
A Russian man who claimed that a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen from his family during the communist revolution was denied...
Norwegian Museum Will Return Matisse Painting to Heirs
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2014
A Nazi-looted painting by Henri Matisse will be returned to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer by a museum in Norway. Painted in 1937, "Woman in Blue in Front of a Fireplace” is valued at...
Gardner Museum Joins Google Art Project on Anniversary of Art Heist
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2014
On the anniversary of the 1990 heist that remains the world's biggest art theft ever, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston joined the public stage of the Google Art Project. Select artworks from the museum are now available online, and the Gardner became the first New England institution ...
Hidden Art Collection Comes to Auction
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2014
A German immigrant who built his fortune in the hosiery business in Reading, Pa., George D. Horst amassed a fine collection of paintings that ended up tucked away out of public view for eight decades...
Case of Stolen Gustav Klimt Painting Reopened
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2014
Advances in DNA testing will allow police to reopen the case of a Gustav Klimt painting stolen more than 17 years ago in Italy.
Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, Arts Patron, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / March 17th, 2014
Arts patron, gardener and philanthropist Rachel "Bunny" Mellon died at her home in Upperville, Va., on Monday. She was 103. The wife of Pittsburgh arts patron and banking heir Paul Mellon...
Art Collection to Be Stored in Innovative Warehouse Open to the Public
Gizmodo / March 11th, 2014
In Rotterdam, a new building shaped like an enormous salad bowl, complete with leafy greens on top, will house the city's precious art collection. Works of art not normally on view will be stored in the building and it will be open to the public to explore.
Holocaust Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Germany Over Art Trove
ArtfixDaily / March 6th, 2014
An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from New York City has filed a lawsuit against German authorities over the return of a painting that he claims was stolen in the 1930s and is now part of the art hoard recently discovered in Munich.
Restituted Renoir to Go on View at Baltimore Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 4th, 2014
A painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that had been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art more than 60 years ago will go on public view there this month.
Recently Attributed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for Over $75 Million
ArtfixDaily / March 3rd, 2014
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci discovered at an estate sale sold privately in May 2013 for between $75 million and $80 million.
Radiocarbon Helps Label Léger Painting a Fake
LiveScience / February 26th, 2014
A painting once attributed to French modernist Fernand Léger has now been deemed a fake. The work languished out of view in the Guggenheim collection under suspicion that it was not "right." It took today's latest scientific analysis to uncover miniscule traces of Cold War-era nuclear bombs...
Art Forger Opens Up About His Multimillion Dollar Scam
CBS / February 24th, 2014
Considered the greatest art forger of our time, Wolfgang Beltracchi says he imagined what famous artists might have painted rather than copying their known works.