Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court ended the fight between a California museum and the heirs of a Jewish Dutch art dealer over Nazi-looted art by declining to take up the case Monday – meaning the museum can keep the masterpieces.
Read moreOne of Claude Monet’s iconic paintings of haystacks has fetched a record $110.7 million at an auction in New York.
Read moreThe successor to an art collector claims in a federal complaint that the New York gallery Wildenstein & Co. sold a forgery of the Pierre Bonnard painting “Still Life With Basket of Fruit” for $275,000.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Tuesday that a treasured Camille Pissarro painting stolen from a Jewish family by Nazis at the onset of World War II can stay in a Spanish museum, finding the museum had no evidence the work was looted when it acquired it in 1992.
Read moreAn American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections.
Read moreRecasting claims that it spent nearly a decade shaping in federal court, a Paris gallery demands more than $18 million from a New York art dealer that it accuses of spoiling its contract with a now-deceased Chinese-French painter.
Read moreA Paris auction house says it’s selling a revolver that was possibly used by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh to take his own life.
Read moreArt experts in Britain have discovered that a painting long thought to be a fake Sandro Botticelli in fact came from the master’s own Florence workshop.
Read moreA Dutch art detective says he has recovered a valuable painting by Pablo Picasso 20 years after it was stolen from a wealthy Saudi’s yacht in France.
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Seventy years after Nazis looted it from Ukraine’s largest art museum as the Soviet tank offensive pushed German occupying forces out of Kiev, a Rococo painting attributed to 18th century painter Pierre Louis Goudreaux surfaced at a New York auction in 2013.
Read moreFor the first time, and likely the last, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is showing off most of its works by Rembrandt van Rijn in a single exhibition.
Read moreAn impressionist painting from an American museum on loan in Germany has become the focus of attention because of allegations it may have been looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art collector.
Read moreRussian police on Monday found the painting that was stolen a day earlier from Moscow’s famed museum of Russian art in broad daylight before unsuspecting visitors.
Read moreBerlin police say experts are examining three watercolor landscapes allegedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler to determine if they are fakes.
Read moreA “full body scan” carried out on the Van Gogh Museum’s version of the Dutch master’s iconic “Sunflowers” has shown the painting is not fit to travel because it’s in “stable but vulnerable” condition, the museum’s director said Thursday.
Read moreAbout 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was. But when modern scientists examined her dug-up remains, they discovered something peculiar — brilliant blue flecks in the tartar on her teeth.
Read moreOfficials have returned a painting looted by the Nazis to heirs of a Jewish French politician and resistance figure who was executed during World War II.
Read moreAccusing Christie’s of bad faith, a South Korean gallery claims in a pair of lawsuits that the storied auction house sold a Francis Bacon painting at a “bargain-basement price.”
Read moreThe director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is urging Germany to return a Dutch masterpiece stolen by Nazi troops during World War II, dramatizing its absence by hanging a black and white photo of the work with the label “Stolen” in three languages.
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