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Restitution claims

Pick of the week: Jumbo price from Rothberger collection
14 December 2020The Anschluss of 1938 between Nazi Germany and Austria had a devastating effect on Vienna’s Jewish population.

Sotheby’s to offer restituted view of Dresden acquired by Hitler's art dealer
21 July 2020An Old Master painting restored to the family of its original Jewish owner will be offered at Sotheby’s next week with an estimate of £3m-4m.

Descendants win fight for justice for Carl Spitzweg painting
08 June 2020Painting went through lengthy ownership saga before being returned to family and then sold.

Institute of Art and Law to update guidance on restitution cases
19 March 2020Arts Council England has appointed the Institute of Art and Law to help form new guidance for institutions around the thorny issues of restitution and repatriation of cultural objects.

Recovered works top Sotheby’s modern art auction
06 February 2020Pictures restored to the family of an important Jewish collector whose property had been seized by the Nazis led Sotheby’s latest evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art in London.

Nazi-looted paintings by Pissarro and Signac that entered the Musée d’Orsay to be offered at Sotheby’s
16 January 2020Three Impressionist paintings believed to be worth over £14m that were taken by the Nazis during the Second World War but recently restituted to the heirs of a French-Jewish art collector will be offered at Sotheby’s in London next month.

The changing face of antiquities
23 December 2019Given the growing number of claims made by national governments and heritage authorities when it comes to the antiquities sector, 2020 looks set to be another year of further controversies. Here, lawyer Fred Clark, an associate in Boodle Hatfield LLP’s art team, surveys the legal landscape of the ancient art market and looks ahead to what may well become a more regulated world.

‘Stolen’ Joshua Reynolds portrait at centre of controversy between UK family and Japanese museum
12 September 2019A Japanese museum has claimed it bought a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds “in good faith and without fault from a respectable art dealer” after it was identified as being stolen from a UK stately home.

Social media storm stops Maori cloak auction
09 September 2019Sussex auction house Burstow & Hewett has withdrawn a rare Maori cloak after its imminent sale was met by online threats and abuse.

Nazi-looted French vases returned jointly by FBI and Christie’s
12 August 2019The FBI’s art crime team and auction house Christie’s have returned a pair of Louis XVI bronze vases that were stolen by the Nazis to the heirs of the original Jewish owners.

Pick of the week: Restituted Swiss self-portrait lights up saleroom
10 June 2019Berlin auction house Grisebach posted an auction record for the Swiss artist Karl Stauffer-Bern (1857-91) on May 29 when it sold a self-portrait which had been recently restituted to the family of its original Jewish owners.

Valuable books missing since Second World War restored to Bonn library after being consigned to Sotheby’s
12 April 2019Six-hundred rare books, manuscripts and prints which were lost or stolen from a German library during the Second World War have been returned after they were consigned to Sotheby’s.

Nazi-looted painting seized by Adolf Hitler’s photographer finally handed back to heirs of original Jewish owners by German cathedral
21 March 2019A cathedral in Germany has returned a painting that was seized by the Nazis in 1941 to the heirs of its original Jewish owners. The work had entered the collection of Adolf Hitler’s photographer Heinrich Hoffmann and was found among the numerous works he kept in a castle in Bavaria at the end of the Second World War.

Legal landmarks: high-profile cases and incoming legislation to watch out for in 2019
21 December 2018The arrival of the ivory ban in late 2019 is not the only piece of imminent legislation that the antiques trade should be aware of. The efforts of global art and antiques trade body CINOA are currently focused on two broad issues: anti-money-laundering legislation and laws surrounding the import of cultural goods.

Rare Summer Palace bronze found in British seaside bungalow returns to China
11 December 2018An exceptionally rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops in 1860, has been returned to China.

Persian sculpture seized from London dealer in New York to be returned to Iran
25 July 2018A Persian limestone relief sculpture is to be returned to Iran, a New York court has ruled.

Guelph Treasure claim can go to court in US
16 July 2018A Washington DC appeals court has upheld a decision to allow a ‘Nazi forced sale’ claim against a collection of medieval devotional art to go to trial in the US.

'Nazi-loot' claim over $250m Guelph Treasure can go to trial in US federal court
13 July 2018A Washington DC appeals court has upheld a decision to allow a ‘Nazi forced sale’ claim against a spectacular collection of medieval devotional art to go to trial in the US.

Dutch Old Master looted at Arnhem sells for £1.6m at Sotheby’s auction
05 July 2018A Dutch Old Master painting looted by the Nazis after the Battle of Arnhem but now returned to its rightful owners after 73 years has sold at Sotheby’s for £1.6m.

Auction house Sotheby’s takes on Greece in landmark antiquities court case
06 June 2018A small bronze figure of a horse from ancient Greece is at the centre of a New York court case after Greece’s ministry of culture demanded its return and stopped its sale at auction.

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