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christies.com
Titian’s The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (circa 1510) is discussed, noting its early Titian provenance, its journey through European collections, and its sale on 2 July 2024 for £17,560,000 at Christie’s in London.
news.artnet.com
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1888). Collection of the Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo. A federal judge in Illinois dismissed a suit by the heirs of a German Jewish collector alleging duress in the sale of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers; the court found no jurisdiction over the Japanese owner, Sompo Holdings’s Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo, which holds the work.
artnews.com
Pablo Picasso, Woman Ironing (1904) at the Guggenheim Foundation was the subject of a restitution lawsuit filed in January 2023 by Thomas Bennigson, a relative of Karl Adler. The suit claimed the painting was sold under duress in 1938 to fund escape from the Nazi regime, but the case was dismissed for lack of actionable duress; the painting remains with the Guggenheim. The work is valued at an estimated $150 million to $200 million.
sfmoma.org
The press release from SFMOMA states that the museum has acquired works by more than 65 artists, including Virgil Abloh, Farah Al Qasimi, Yael Bartana, Merikokeb Berhanu, JB Blunk, Beverly Buchanan, rafa esparza, Vaginal Davis, Rachel Harrison, Tyler Hobbs, Ulysses Jenkins, Rashid Johnson, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Doyle Lane, Mire Lee, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Oscar Murillo, Philippe Parreno, Paul Pfeiffer, Ron Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Isabel Rower, Niki de Saint Phalle, Amy Sherald, soft geometry, Kunié Sugiura, teenage engineering, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Martin Wong and Christopher Wool. The acquisitions aim to broaden representation of women, artists of color, and those from California and the Bay Area; Yayoi Kusama’s Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023) is highlighted among the works.
the-artinsight.com
Monet painting from the Zurich Kunsthalle is set to be sold after the museum reached a settlement with the heirs of Jewish textile manufacturer Carl Sachs, who fled Nazi Germany to Switzerland. The painting was among works Sachs sent to Switzerland and was sold after his arrival; no decision has been made on sale timing or location, and proceeds must be reinvested in the collection under ICOM rules.
dw.com
The Kunsthaus Zürich is selling Claude Monet's painting L'Homme à l'ombrelle (Man with a Parasol) acquired from Carl Sachs, a Jewish entrepreneur who fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1939. Sachs was forced to sell the work under duress during World War II, and the proceeds will be shared between the museum and Sachs' descendants; the sale is part of a provenance transparency effort. The museum's leadership emphasizes a commitment to transparency and a provenance strategy, with heirs welcoming the sale as a just solution.
theartnewspaper.com
Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs claimed Pablo Picasso’s La repasseuse (Woman Ironing, 1904) was sold under duress during their flight from Nazi persecution and sought restitution or compensation. A New York judge dismissed the claim in June 2024, ruling the heirs failed to prove duress and that the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act did not apply because the painting’s location had been known for over 40 years.
thetimes.com
The article reports that a New York judge ruled in favor of the Guggenheim Museum and against the heirs of the couple who sold Woman Ironing in 1938, a Picasso valued at about $200 million.
artnews.com
The Monet painting L’homme à l’ombrelle (Man with Umbrella), 1865/67, from the Kunsthaus Zurich collection will be sold following a settlement with the heirs of Carl Sachs. Carl Sachs and his wife Margarete had loaned the work to the museum in 1934 after fleeing Nazi Germany, and the sale proceeds will be reinvested into the collection.
news.artnet.com
Claude Monet, L’homme à l’ombrelle (1865/1867) is to be sold by Kunsthaus Zurich after an agreement with the heirs of Carl Sachs and his wife Margarete. The painting was lent to the museum in 1934 and sold under duress after the couple fled Nazi Germany; the sale proceeds will support the museum’s acquisitions fund. The settlement follows a provenance research project and aims to address works confiscated during Nazi persecution.
300magazine.com
The June 2024 ruling by a New York federal judge resolved the restitution claim over Picasso's La repasseuse, owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, brought by the heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler. The Adlers had sought return or compensation under the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, but the court dismissed their claims, affirming the Guggenheim Foundation's lawful acquisition.
theartnewspaper.com
Peter Paul Rubens’s Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (1621) has been restituted to the Friedenstein Foundation in Gotha, Germany. The oil sketch was illegally sold after World War II along with other works; two others remain missing. The piece will be on permanent display at the Ducal Museum within the Friedenstein palace complex.
codart.nl
Peter Paul Rubens, Saint Gregory of Nazianzius, 1621, is returning to Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany. The oil sketch was part of a six-decade dispersion after World War II and is one of the Gotha series created around 1620 for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The return involved Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Friedenstein Stiftung Gotha, Christie’s, and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung.
smithsonianmag.com
Peter Paul Rubens, St. Gregory of Nazianzus (1621), from Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany, vanishes after World War II and is returned to Friedenstein Castle following a private sales agreement; the work ended up at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in New York before being repatriated to Gotha.
theartnewspaper.com
The Art Newspaper reports Sotheby’s London modern and contemporary evening sale totaled £83.6m with fees (£71.8m hammer), against a pre-sale estimate of £76.4m–£108.1m. Basquiat’s £15m work and the collection of Ralph I. Goldenberg are noted as bright spots; the sale involved withdrawals by Loie Hollowell, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and Tamara de Lempicka, and featured around half of lots guaranteed by Sotheby’s with about 30% backed by third-party irrevocable bids.
theartnewspaper.com
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam will return Henri Matisse, Odalisque (1920-21), to the heirs of Albert Stern, a Jewish textiles manufacturer who sold the painting under duress in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and died in a Nazi camp in 1945. The Dutch Restitutions Committee notes the sale occurred under measures against Jewish people and out of necessity; Stern’s wife Marie Stern led the family collection, and Stern and his two sons died in the Holocaust.
news.artnet.com
The U S Department of Justice recovers assets linked to Jho Low, including a Monet and a Warhol located in Switzerland, and a Paris apartment, totaling about $35 million in value. The assets are to be transferred to Malaysia as part of a civil forfeiture settlement related to the 1MDB fraud.
news.artnet.com
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict (1982) was the top seller at Sotheby’s London Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, selling for £16 million ($20.3 million) including fees. Other notable results included a Paul Klee on paper Hitze (Heat), 1940, selling for £456,000 ($576,680) and Piero Manzoni’s Achrome (1958–59) selling for £3 million ($4 million). Total sales after fees were £83,618,832 ($105,748,556) and the hammer total was £71,860,000 ($91,165,647).
theartnewspaper.com
Titian’s early painting The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1508-1510) is being prepared for sale at Christie's in London with an estimated £15 million to £25 million. The work’s history includes a famous theft from Longleat House in 1995 and its recovery from a bus stop in Richmond seven years later. The article highlights the painting’s documented provenance and its significance in Titian’s career.
news.artnet.com
Henri Matisse Odalisque (1920/1921) in the Stedelijk Museum collection is being returned to the heirs of Albert Stern, a Jewish textile manufacturer who was forced to sell the work during Nazi persecution. The Restitutions Committee found it plausible that Stern was compelled to sell to escape Nazi occupation, and the painting was sold to the Stedelijk Museum in July 1941.