Linking Databases To Detect Looted Art
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When an artwork with a Nazi era provenance gap and the Red Flag Name "Pétridès" pops up in a museum, one might hope that the museum would spare no effort to clarify the provenance. The OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit had this to say about Paul Pétridès : Petrides, O. Paris , 6 ave Delcasse/153 rue la Boetie. Born in Cyprus. British subject, naturalised French. One of the most active…
above: Gustave Courbet - Les Roches de Hautepierre , settlement with heirs of Max Silberberg In the last ten years, what progress in provenance research at the Art Institute of Chicago for artworks it listed on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP)? This dataset preserves the provenances of AIC NEPIP artworks for two dates at a ten year interval: 2017 and 2026. View AIC provenances for…
Art Institute of Chicago / Alsdorf Provenance Dataset (Updated May 2026) This dataset preserves provenance information published by the Art Institute of Chicago for artworks associated with the James and Marilynn Alsdorf collection and related objects. The dataset was assembled from publicly accessible museum webpages in June 2024 and May 2026 . Its purpose is to facilitate: progress tracking of…
Crucifixion, Miguel Alcanyís c. 1425 Accession Number 64.11.14 ( provenance gap of 539 years ?) *** Back when the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal still existed, The CMOA published a list of artworks that it considered had Nazi-era provenance gaps. Then, in 2015, the CMOA received a $350,000 grant for digital provenance research, in which it made great and innovative progress, sharing methods…
The Times' David Sanderson just published " Painting from Hitler’s love nest hangs in the National Gallery " reminding us that Silberman Galleries provided false information to the UK National Gallery of Art about the 16th-century painting Cupid Complaining to Venus. Its provenance has long been known to have a big Nazi era gap, and was even published in the National Gallery's Whereabouts of…
Bravo to Austria's Commission for Provenance Research for Open Access Digital Publications Austria's Commission for Provenance Research makes its publications available as open access digital publications For each publication chapters are published in separate PDFs and available for download with an "Open Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0." licence. see:…
The heirs of persecuted Jewish collectors Armand Dorville, Max and Martha Leibermann, Adele Paechter and the Brombergs have all filed Search Requests for Lost Art on the German Lost Art Foundation website for artworks which currently are listed in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.. Below are five artworks with the provenances as published on Lost Art and the…
Part 1: raw texts url: https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/military/rg-226-3g.html Military Agency Records RG 226 Interallied and Interservice Military Agencies Records Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG 226) Records of the Research and Analysis Branch "Regular" Intelligence Reports (Entry 16) [ Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 ] 12027 Information concerning…
