Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Aussage von Hubertus Czernin, der 1998 über Vermeer gemälde recherchierte und zu dem Schluss kam, dass die Restitution an Jaromir Czernin zu Recht nicht erfolgt sei. Ein Memorandum von 1946 sowie damalige Entscheidungen des Staatsrats Plattner, dem das Amt für Denkmalschutz unterstand, werden zitiert, insbesondere der Versuch, den Verkauf des Bildes an Philipp Reemtsma zu verhindern und die Restitution zu verzögern.
The Czernin family heirs demand restitution of Jan Vermeer's Die Malkunst from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (KHM); they allege the sale to Adolf Hitler in 1940 under duress for a Führermuseum in Linz. The article notes the painting has been at the KHM since 1946 and outlines the family's attorney Alexander Theiss and provenance expert Michael Wladika, with statements that the restitution is being considered but not yet pursued as a lawsuit.
The Czernin family seeks return of the Vermeer painting A Művész műtermében, allegedly coerced under Hitler; the work was bought by Adolf Hitler in 1940 from Jaromir Czernin. The heirs claim under pressure sale and request restitution from Austria, citing prior legal attempts and expert arguments.
Una familia judía reclama la pintura de Johannes Vermeer conocida como El arte de la pintura, vendida forzosamente a Adolf Hitler en 1940 y expuesta en el Museo de Historia del Arte de Viena desde 1946; Andreas Theiss, abogado de la familia Czernin, señala que Czernin tuvo que venderla por la persecución nazi hacia su esposa de origen judío. Se menciona que la obra es la de mayor tamaño entre las atribuidas a Vermeer y que Miró su famosa Dama al virginal fue vendida en 2004 por Sotheby’s por 42 millones de dólares.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna could potentially restitute a Vermeer, a painting owned by Austrian aristocrats, after a history of Klimt restitutions. The piece, attributed to Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), was acquired in 1940 by Adolf Hitler for a Führer Museum planned in Linz; recent expert analyses contest the sale as coerced.
The New York Times reports on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s cleaning of Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man, confirming it as a work by Velázquez rather than from his workshop. The article discusses past doubts due to varnish, restorations, and cataloging, noting conservators and curators such as Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher involved in reassessing the painting.
The Czernin family demands restitution of Johannes Vermeer's The art of painting from the Austrian government. The painting is currently in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, having been bought by Adolf Hitler for his planned Führermuseum in Linz in 1940. The family claims the sale was involuntary under regime pressure and provides new documents supporting this claim.
Cy Twombly Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), a 1970 oil-based house paint and wax crayon on canvas by Cy Twombly, is showcased at the Menil Collection in Houston after a year-long loan to Tate Modern. The Menil acquired the painting in 1998, and the exhibition includes related drawings on loan from the artist’s private collection.
AFP reports that executors of Frida Kahlo’s estate filed a criminal complaint alleging that many personal notes, drawings and illustrated letters published in two books, Finding Frida Kahlo and The Labyrinth of Frida Kahlo, are fake. A committee of 15 art experts concluded most documents are not by Kahlo, with Sotheby’s having withdrawn the documents from catalogs. An estimated 400 to 500 works falsely attributed to Kahlo circulate, with her painting Roots selling for 5.6 million dollars in 2006.
Adam Fulton reports that a Brett Whiteley painting titled The Sunrise, Japanese: Good Morning! sold at auction for a hammer price of 1.1 million with a price estimate of 1.1–1.4 million; the work’s price tag including buyer’s premium reached 1.342 million. The sale, at Menzies Art Brands in Kensington, was the first seven-figure artwork in Australia that year.
Christie’s announced a roughly 200-lot sale from the family collection of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina. The group included paintings and works of art alongside silver, jewellery, furniture and tapestries, with estimates up to £100,000.
Christie’s announced the first auction appearance in more than a century of Domenichino’s Saint John the Evangelist, estimated at £7–10 million for its December Old Masters sale in London.
Christie’s announced a 550-lot London sale from Galerie Popoff, including Russian and European porcelain, watercolours, paintings, textiles and works of art. The collection, built by one of Paris’s longest-serving Russian-art dealers, was especially notable for Imperial porcelain provenance.