Restitution

Stolen mosque lamps to return to Egypt as Cairo museum houses new database

Authorities confirmed the objects had been taken from national collection and fakes left in their place

More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador

Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain

Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group

Gloves come off in fight to run international database of stolen works of art

Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’

Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany

Artnews

Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder

US collector and Dutch dealer reject Nazi loot claim

Heirs insist German-Jewish factory owner was forced to sell portrait by Gerrit Dou in 1933

New foundation takes over research into Gurlitt hoard

Much-criticised taskforce hands over responsibility as frustration grows at slow progress

EU law rejects Getty Lysippos restitution verdict

Legal battle resumes for the Victorious Youth, which is housed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

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Holocaust survivor’s art last seen in Cuba

US foundation claims Castro regime seized paintings that Hitler failed to steal

German culture foundation angers Jewish groups over Holocaust dating

1935 sale of the Guelph Treasure predates the Holocaust “by several years”, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said in US court papers

Lawnews

Tale behind Schiele watercolours is a tragedy—but is it a theft?

The heirs of the Viennese entertainer Fritz Grünbaum, who died in Dachau, go to court in New York to recover his art

MoMA returns expressionist landscape after decade-long detective case

The twists and turns of a mistaken provenance meant a work by Kirchner had entered the museum’s collection under the wrong title and date

Matisse portrait claim rejected by National Gallery

Greta Moll’s heirs argue painting was “misappropriated” in 1947

Looted marble bust returned to Poland

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of the goddess Diana was taken by the Nazis during the Second World War

Dispute over Venetian painting seized by Vichy regime resolved after more than 70 years

Late 18th-century Vincenzo Chilone regatta scene once owned by John and Anna Jaffé is due to be sold at Christie’s

More Dabuzishan artefacts returned to China

At handover, the French dealer and collector Christian Deydier says he hopes all the objects taken from ancient tombs will “return home and be united”

Getty becomes first museum to restitute Armenian art removed during genocide

The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement

Restitution claim for Bristol Museum’s Renoir rejected

Painting’s sale was forced but not by Nazis, report concludes

Argentina plans to return thousands of artefacts to Ecuador and Peru

Country’s president applauds “unusual” restitution but calls out international museums that display objects stolen from Latin American

Restituted works help Sotheby’s lead the way

Impressionist and Modern sales meet expectations

Stolen art? Why no one can say for sure

One of the main art databases, the Art Loss Register, has issued certificates for works looted or subject to recovery claims

Lawnews

Oklahoma politicians scold university museum over possible Nazi loot

State’s House of Representatives urges Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art to step up its provenance research

First work from Gurlitt hoard goes under the hammer

Sotheby’s to auction looted painting by Liebermann that was returned to heirs last week

Germany returns first work from Gurlitt hoard

Heirs of Paul Rosenberg retrieve a looted Matisse painting, more than two years after it was discovered along with 1,300 others

French collectors hand back gold to China they had given to Musée Guimet

Concerns raised after François Pinault returns looted artefacts as diplomatic gesture