Believed to have been looted from the Libyan coast during WWII, the Ptolemaic-era statue will remain at the CMA on loan for an unspecified period of time.
For the first time in 50 years, Diego Velázquez’s portrait of Isabella of Bourbon was set to fetch $35 million at Sotheby’s New York, but in early January 2024, it was withdrawn from auction.
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.