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theartnewspaper.com
Hector Feliciano sues the Rosenberg estate and heirs for a 17.5% finder’s fee, seeking over $6.8 million based on a claimed $39 million value of recovered works. The complaint, filed in Manhattan, names the Rosenberg estate of Paul Rosenberg, Alexandre Rosenberg's heirs, and others.
theartnewspaper.com
The Art Newspaper reports that a California federal court ruled Austria can be sued in the US for the return of six Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and now in the Austrian National Gallery collection, including Adele Bloch-Bauer I and II, Beechwood, Apple Tree I, Houses in Unterach am Attersee, and Amalie Zuckerkandl; the paintings are valued around $150 million.
theartnewspaper.com
The New York attorneys of Jen Lissitzky, son of El Lissitzky, filed a complaint on 13 July against the Beyeler Foundation seeking the return of Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation No.10, looted by the Nazis in 1937; the dispute concerns the Sophie-Küppers-Lissitzky collection. Two other paintings from the collection have already been returned, including one from a Japanese museum.
absolutearts.com
Francis Bacon’s 7 Reece Mews studio reconstructed at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin was opened in May 2001 and is described as the definitive archive of Bacon’s studio with over 7,000 items, including 80 works on paper and around 1,500 photographs by John Deakin, Peter Beard and Henri Cartier-Bresson. The project features reconstructed original walls, floor, ceiling and a wooden staircase, and is complemented by an Audio Visual room, an Exhibition Gallery and a Micro Gallery.
independent.co.uk
The article reports that a London loss adjuster, Tyler & Co, is offering financial bait to the criminal underworld to recover the Goya painting The Swing, stolen from Esther Koplowitz in Madrid. The insurer’s reward is $400,000 for information leading to the recovery of the Goya, with other stolen works mentioned.