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3 Men and a Painting: Savvy accomplices make off with “Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

2018-11-29 | Uncategorized

Entering Vienna’s oldest auction house, the Dorotheum, just after sunset, three well-dressed men in jackets and coats, working in tandem are believed to have made off with a landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes (English:...

Recovered: “Portrait of Marta Ghezzi Baldinotti” stolen 32 years ago from Palazzo Chigi

2018-11-28 | Uncategorized

  The team of the Carabinieri del Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (TPC) in Palermo, under the command of Magg. Luigi Mancuso, has proven once again that patience makes perfect when it comes to the recovery of stolen art.  While the squad has not yet recovered...

How long does it take to achieve restitution of a looted antiquity? In some cases 25 years or more

2018-11-20 | Uncategorized

PURCHASED            ACQ NUMBER          DESCRIPTION 29 February 1992      292.AA.10              Statue of Zeus Enthroned   On October 27, 2018 a first century BCE, marble statue of Zeus, seated on his throne, finally moved to its permanent home, the...

Recovered? Anonymous tip may have lead to Picasso’s “Tete d’Arlequin” stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2012

2018-11-18 | Uncategorized

On October 16, 2012 Dutch police confirmed that seven paintings had been stolen, shortly after 3 a.m. local time, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam.  The paintings which were taken, Pablo Picasso’s Tete d’Arlequin, Henri Matisse’s La Liseuse en...

Recoverable or Not? The sale of the Assyrian gypsum relief of a winged Genius, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, circa 883-859 BCE

2018-10-30 | Uncategorized

In March 2015, the Iraqi government formally announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL had purposefully destroyed much of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II as part of their iconoclastic program of obliterating preislamic cultural...

Recovered: 26 years after its theft “San Carlo Borromeo in Contemplation”

2018-10-29 | Uncategorized

In a ceremony held at the San Pietro Apostolo in Cavenago d’Adda, Italy, parishioners celebrate the return of the 17th century painting “San Carlo Borromeo in Contemplation” by early Baroque artist Daniele Crespi. Stolen twenty-six years ago, on...
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