A sleepy, southern Italian town kept one of the art world’s biggest secrets for more than 50 years.
In a stunning turn of events, in the ongoing Accent Delight International Ltd. et al v. Sotheby’s et al art fraud lawsuit, a jury decided in favor of Sotheby’s in the world’s longest art-feud trial.
Two years after a whistleblower alerted the British Museum to alleged stolen artifacts circulating the internet, the case rages on.
On September 12th, Van Gogh’s “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” was returned, three years after it was stolen from a Dutch Museum in March 2020.
The ‘Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn’ is on view until January 14, 2024.
In late September the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office ordered 7 Schiele paintings to be seized from both private and public (including the Carnegie and Oberlin Museums of Art) collections and repatriated to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret artist who was killed during the Holocaust. Not even 10 days later, six of the paintings hit the auction floor with a combined (expected) sale of up to $8.45 million.