José Clemente Orozco in the United States discusses the Hood Museum of Art's 1927-1934 exhibition of Orozco’s works, organized with the Museo de Arte Carollo Gil and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and notes Orozco's impact as a muralist in the United States alongside Rivera and Sigueiros. The article references the exhibition’s scope of over 120 works and its significance as a major U.S. museum show in decades.
Galka Scheyer, the German artist Emilie Ester Scheyer, known as Galka, collected works by Jawlensky, Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, whom she promoted as the Blue Four and called “my four blue kings.” Her holding of about 500 artworks and 800 documents is being highlighted with exhibitions at the Norton Simon Museum and a Yale University Press catalog publication, The Blue Four at the Norton Simon Museum.
Mi Fu's running-script work Yinshan Ming, a renowned Song dynasty piece, was bought back by the China Cultural Relics Information Center for nearly 30 million yuan and is stored at the Palace Museum in Beijing; the sale was completed at a Beijing capital hotel auction, with subsequent transfer to the Palace Museum.
Frankfurter Kunstraub: Turner-Bilder sind wieder da berichtet, dass die beiden Turner-Gemälde Licht und Farbe (Goethes Theorie) - Der Morgen nach der Sintflut und Der Abend nach der Sintflut, die 1994 aus der Frankfurter Schirn gestohlen wurden, wieder zugänglich sind; Verhandlungen zur Rückgabe des Caspar-David-Friedrich-Werks Nebelschwaden dauern an.
The Times reports that the Tate recovered two stolen Turners, Shade and Darkness and Light and Colour, after paying £8 million to buy back the insurance rights, leading to a £15 million profit on the insurance. The recovery was coordinated by Sandy Nairne and involved delays and careful negotiations with insurers and authorities.
J. M. W. Turner paintings Shade and Darkness The Evening of the Deluge and Light and Color Goethe's Theory The Morning After the Deluge were stolen from the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 1994 and were returned to the Tate Gallery in London eight years later; a third Turner, Nebelschwaden by Caspar David Friedrich, remains unrecovered.
Thomas Douglas and his wife Noeleen were due in Dublin District Court to seek bail after being charged with handling stolen property in connection with the Beit Beit Beit Beit Beit case; five paintings worth about €8.5 million were recovered from their home amid a police raid related to the Russborough Beit collection thefts.
The grandson of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany seeks $10 million from a Chicago art collector or the return of Pablo Picasso's painting Femme en blanc (Femme assise), alleging it was stolen by Nazis; a temporary restraining order was issued and the painting had been moved to a Chicago apartment.
Associated Press reports that a stolen Childe Hassam painting depicting Celia Thaxter’s childhood home has been returned to the Thaxter family. The work is part of Hassam’s impressions of the Isles of Shoals, including White Island Lighthouse, and his paintings of the islands comprise about 10 percent of his nearly 4,000 works.