Boston MFA Reaches Deal with Jewish Heirs Whose Painting Was Sold to Hitler
The painting was selected by Hitler for the never-realized "Führermuseum."
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German Commission Recommends Bavarian State Bank Return Kandinsky Auctioned During World War II
"The painting was seized as a result of persecution," the commission concluded.
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German Museums Hold 40,000 Artifacts Looted from Cameroon, New Study Finds
Cameroonian embassy officials have stressed their intention to reclaim the objects.
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Two San Diego Collectors Surrendered 65 Archaeological Objects to Mexico
"I thank these citizens of San Diego for the generous and selfless gesture of returning these pieces to the people of Mexico," González Gutiérrez, the Mexican consul general, said.
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Heirs of Art Dealer Persecuted by Nazis Claim Sotheby’s Sold Prized Tiepolo with Misleading Provenance
The heirs have petitioned Sotheby's to reveal the names of the parties involved in the 2019 sale.
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UK Government and British Museum Were at Odds Over the Parthenon Marbles, Declassified Documents Reveal
Recently declassified documents reveal that the government was dismissive of the British Museum's efforts to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983.
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Ownership of the Benin Bronzes is Transferred from the Nigerian Government to Oba of Benin
The move is confusing museums' plans to return the famously looted artifacts.
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Paintings Returned from Musée d’Orsay to Heirs to be Auctioned in New York
One work in the group, by Paul Gauguin, has an estimated worth between $10 million and $15 million
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Nazi-Looted Courbet Painting Currently in Cambridge Museum Will Be Returned
The work's original theft was dated to 1941 by a panel overseeing restitution.
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Questions Loom About Vatican Monsignor’s Collection Following His Death
A 19th-century copy of a famed Etruscan vase could restart a decades-old debacle.
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