THE ARCHIVE BY COUNTRY
Published reports from our archive, newest first.
A country may refer to the theft, recovery, return or legal proceedings. A case can be linked to more than one country.
5 reports
Manhattan prosecutors returned 11 antiquities to Greece, including the pictured grave relief. The objects were recovered in several investigations, including one involving London-based antiquities dealer Robin Symes. Image: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Police arrested three people in an investigation into suspected online auctions of forged artworks. Officers seized 930 works in total. A National Gallery specialist identified 123 works intended for sale as fakes. Image shows items photographed by police and published by ERT.
Picasso’s Woman’s Head and Mondrian’s Mill were recovered nine years after their January 2012 theft from the National Gallery in Athens.
Collector Diamantis Diamantides challenged two works acquired from Sotheby’s. A court found that the purported Constantin Parthenis Virgin and Child was a forgery and awarded compensation. Sotheby’s said it intended to appeal.
Raphael, Esterházy Madonna, one of the paintings stolen from Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts in 1983 and subsequently returned; reproduction of the artwork, not the recovery scene. Image source ↗
This archival record, issued in 2006, documents the 1984 return of art stolen from Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts. An MTI photograph dated 25 January 1984 shows conservators unpacking a recovered Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo painting, one of seven works stolen on 5 November 1983. Its caption records the painting’s recovery in Greece on 20 January 1984. This is historical documentation, not a new recovery.
