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.
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Christie’s withdrew four painted wooden manuscript covers before a New York auction. Scholars matched them to an inventory of the National Archives in Kathmandu. One is the twelfth-century cover of a Shivadharmasangraha manuscript.
US authorities announced the return of Electric Cord to Barbara Bertozzi Castelli after the painting resurfaced in New York.
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Madeleine Leaning on Her Elbow with Flowers in Her Hair. FBI. Image source ↗
The FBI sought information on Madeleine Leaning on Her Elbow with Flowers in Her Hair (1918), stolen from a Houston home on 8 September 2011. The 2012 appeal cited a private insurer’s reward of up to $50,000. Its present validity has not been verified.
The recovered Matisse at its 2014 return; The Guardian Image source ↗
Two people were charged with possessing and transporting a painting believed to be Matisse’s stolen Odalisque in Red Pants. Agents said it appeared consistent with the Caracas museum original. This release records allegations at the charging stage.
Federal authorities announced a sentence in a scheme that misrepresented the origin and authenticity of paintings attributed to Louisiana artist Clementine Hunter. Documentary image accompanying the case account published by the US National Park Service.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported finding the drawing in a church in the San Fernando Valley after it disappeared from a hotel exhibition.
Pablo Picasso, Tête de Femme (1965), the drawing stolen from the Weinstein Gallery. Image source ↗
Pablo Picasso’s 1965 drawing Tête de Femme, stolen from San Francisco’s Weinstein Gallery, was recovered in the Napa area. Mark Lugo was arrested on suspicion of theft. The report records recovery and arrest, not a conviction.
The museum reached a financial settlement with Walter Westfeld’s estate and heirs. The agreement allowed Portrait of a Man and Woman in an Interior to remain in Boston.
The First Circuit affirmed that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston owns Two Nudes (Lovers) and that the competing claim was time-barred.
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil. Leopold Museum collection image. Image source ↗
A settlement provided $19 million to Lea Bondi Jaray’s estate in the dispute over Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally. The painting would remain with the Leopold Museum, with acknowledgment of its looted history. The agreement did not return the painting to the heirs.
Muhammad Ali portrait illustrated in ABC’s report on the stolen Warhol collection. Credit: duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io, via ABC/Reuters. Image source ↗
Ten Andy Warhol portraits of athletes and a portrait of collector Richard Weisman were stolen from Weisman’s west Los Angeles home. The theft was discovered on 3 September 2009. Reuters reported that police found no forced entry and that other Warhol works were left behind. No recovery or charges were announced in this report.
The federal court explained why it allowed Julius Schoeps’s ownership dispute over two Picasso paintings, including Boy Leading a Horse, to proceed at that stage. Image of Boy Leading a Horse: Museum of Modern Art.
Entities controlled by Andrew Rose sought to recover payments connected to a 2005 Christie’s auction. The appellate court upheld the refusal to dismiss Christie’s counterclaims or award summary judgment on the refund request. Image: Christie’s New York saleroom, via Wikimedia Commons.
A consignor and Christie’s disputed the auction house’s decision to rescind the sale of Tête Cubiste (Tête de Fernande), a bronze attributed to Picasso after the buyer questioned its authenticity. Claude Picasso later supplied a certificate. The New York court declined to dispose of the core contract dispute on summary judgment. Image: a separate museum cast of Picasso’s Head of a Woman (Fernande), Musée national Picasso-Paris.
Claude Monet, Cliffs near Dieppe, one of the stolen paintings; The Guardian Image source ↗
Bernard Ternus pleaded guilty to a conspiracy involving stolen Monet, Sisley and Brueghel paintings taken in the August 2007 robbery.
The Tony Shafrazi Gallery and collector Guido Orsi sued over the 1990 auction of Untitled (1982), attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The artist’s estate authentication committee later rejected the attribution. Christie’s disputed liability and argued the claims fell outside the terms and timing of its warranty. Image: Christie’s New York saleroom, via Wikimedia Commons.
Collector Robert Kitchen argued that an image Sotheby’s classified as a print was a pastel study by Pierre-Auguste Renoir for The Bathers. The New York court dismissed his claim and declined to set that decision aside. Image: Renoir’s completed The Great Bathers, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Photo: Jaime Ardiles-Arce. Public domain. Image source ↗
The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned the Euphronios krater to Italy in January 2008 under a negotiated agreement. Italy lent other ancient vases to the museum as part of the arrangement.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Girl from the Sabine Mountains. Max Stern Art Restitution Project. Image source ↗
Concordia reported a federal judge’s December 2007 ruling treating the Nazi-era sale of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s Girl from the Sabine Mountains as a forced sale. The January 2008 report records the decision in favour of Max Stern’s estate.
Mexico’s INAH received an eighteenth-century painting depicting Adam and Eve expelled from Eden. The work had been stolen in 2000 from a church in Hidalgo and acquired by the San Diego Museum of Art. Photo of the returned painting: INAH, via La Jornada.
Francisco Goya, Children with a Cart; Toledo Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons, public domain Image source ↗
The museums confirmed recovery after theft in transit to an exhibition. The FBI reported no apparent damage.
