The World Jewish Congress has accused several major US museums of possessing works with Nazi-era looting histories. Museums cited include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MoMA, and the National Gallery of Art, with specific works mentioned such as Rubens Portrait of a Man (1597) and Teniers Deliverance of St Peter; investigations and restitutions are noted for several pieces including Rock at Hautepierre by Gustave Courbet and a Madonna and Child panel by the Master of the Bargello. The article discusses efforts to inventory potentially looted works and references related provenance disputes and restitutions.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum's 17th century painting, The Satyr and the Peasant Family by Jan Steen, was stolen from Belgium between 1939 and 1945. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is also investigating a 15th century painting, Madonna and Child, potentially sold by a Nazi art dealer and stolen from Holocaust victims.
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Georgia O’Keeffe watercolors, 28 of them surfaced in 1988 and were initially considered originals, but their authenticity was questioned because the paper couldn’t have been produced in 1916–1918; the National Gallery of Art excluded the Canyon Suite from O’Keeffe’s catalogue raisonne and dealer Gerald Peters refunded $5 million paid by a Kansas City museum. Peters suspects most works are O’Keeffe’s, though evidence is unclear, and the provenance centers on Emilio Caballero and Ted Reid Caballero’s circle.
P. S. Krøyer maleri af Hanne og Else Benzon fra 1897 solgte for 7,7 millioner kroner hos Ellekilde i København, med vurdering mellem fire og fem millioner. Samlet omsætning for maler- og møbelkunst hos Ellekilde lå lidt over 25 millioner kroner. Et Velázquez portræt af Kong Philip IV blev solgt for 2,8 millioner kroner og vurderes som tvivlsom i tilknytning til kunstneren.
The article reports that on March 14 Sotheby’s will auction one of Antonio Stradivari’s famous violins, known as Back, created in 1666. The instrument is expected to fetch about 280,000 pounds (approximately 153.7 billion drachmas).
Gretchen Reynolds reports on the discovery and subsequent controversy over a supposed lost series of 28 Georgia O'Keeffe watercolors, the Canyon Suite, which sold for $5 million to R. Crosby Kemper Jr. and was donated to the Kemper Museum; later experts claimed the works could not have been by O'Keeffe and the provenance is under investigation by the FBI.
The National Gallery in London is interested in acquiring a Cimabue painting, a Virgin and Child with two angels, discovered among Benacre Hall inventories. The work is offered for auction at Sotheby’s on July 6 and is expected to fetch over 2 million pounds. Also in the same sale, a copper painting by Orazio Gentileschi of the Holy Family with John the Baptist is anticipated at around 1.5–2 million.