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715 documented reports, with direct links to artworks, stories and archives.
Stories and features
- The thieves who wanted the reward
- The Turner that came home in secret
- The boy hidden inside a car
- Daylight, guns and another Scream
- Two tonnes vanished. The metal was the danger.
- A speedboat, a hotel room and a very small Rembrandt
- Five paintings. Three convictions. One missing ending.
- The masterpieces beside the public toilet
- The Magritte they could not sell
- The Picasso declared as a €30 Christmas gift
- The woman inside the wall
- A bedroom door. A missing de Kooning.
- The empty frame in Palermo
- Seven paintings. Two minutes. One stove.
- The heist the police had already rewritten
- Eighty-one minutes. Thirteen works. Empty frames.
- The day the Mona Lisa became a missing person
- The Scream, a ladder and a thank-you note
- Fourteen years missing. A second life in conservation.
- A Renaissance treasure, buried in a forest
- The room that vanished after it was taken apart
- The portrait whose wartime trail ends in silence
- The missing Magritte hidden beneath four other Magrittes
- Three heads rose from the canal. None was Modigliani’s.
- The lost Leonardo that may never have reached the wall
- The painting they cover before the examinations
- The artist whose collages had a history—but no secure biography
- The illustrated book that still refuses an agreed reading
- The bedroom title that became a murder theory
- The fairy tales hidden inside an SS officer’s villa
- The deathbed confession that never led to the painting
- The grave was opened. Goya’s head was missing.
- A murder, a hospital and an elusive fairy kingdom
- The man who invented a Vermeer
- He did not just fake paintings. He gave them a past.
- The aristocrat who invented himself
- The painting behind the painting
- The birthday gift that was destroyed
- $82.5 million, then out of public sight
- The Vampire that came back wounded
- The Jordaens hidden above a cellar ceiling
- Seven Schieles for the heirs of a Viennese cabaret star
- The flowers the Mayer family left in a Brussels crate
- The marble Susanna whose owners Berlin had lost
- The shipwreck that surfaced at a Düsseldorf auction
- The portrait in the real-estate listing
- The Monet pastel the Parlagi family traced to Louisiana
- The misread name on two Louvre still lifes
- The postcard that helped reopen a Kandinsky claim
- The Ruysdael hidden behind the wrong catalogue image
- The two paintings a Paris dealer sold to escape
- Eight works stayed in Basel after a sale driven by exile
- The bouquet that spent 75 years away from Florence
- The Nice auction France revisited eighty years later
- The painting that missed Sofie Heilbronner’s crossing
- The Madonna a Polish investigator spotted in Tokyo
- The tavern panel sold in wartime and settled in Boston
- The Constable whose export permit stalled its return
- The miniature Vienna would not let leave
- A number on the back of the forest pool
- The face that never returned to the Uffizi
- The painting Göring traded for a fake Vermeer
- Fałat’s Kraków from the studio window
- The self-portrait missing from Warsaw’s Blue Palace
- The Naples evening that slipped out of the catalogue
- The king in hiding and the canvas that vanished
- The Courbet hidden in a Budapest bank vault
- Hero and the words that link her to Bendemann’s estate
- The missing Jordaens from the museum in Łódź
- The Venetian Madonna taken from an Abruzzo basilica
- The bronze that once watched over the Stern gallery garden
- The Rubens sketch taken from Poznań
- The Bargello’s marble faun that vanished from a Tuscan castle
- The winter landscape the authorities refused to let leave
- The last known address of The Sale of Amulets
- The tiny painting still missing from the villa’s convoy
- The portrait that changed identities before it vanished
- The Lusina altarpiece came home in pieces
- The Dürer lioness that survived one exile and vanished in another
- The Madonna with two names and a disputed buyer
- The Monet missing from Martha Liebermann’s home
- The portrait that resurfaced, but never came home
- Last stop: Nikolsburg Castle
- The Madonna in the warehouse
- The crate that never reached New York
- Three generations searching for one village street
- The Pissarro still missing from the Friedmann collection
- Lot 133 at the forced sale in Nice
- The price of escape
- Sappho disappears in occupied Paris
- The woman in gold, and the family behind the frame
- Wally: the museum loan that became a legal battle
- Le Père: the portrait Chagall bought back without knowing its past
- The Kandinsky that came back after a refusal
- The Foxes: a sale abroad, a persecution claim at home
- The street scene that left Berlin
- The exhibition that reopened a stolen collection
- Goudstikker: the claim that brought back 202 works
- The Matisse in the Gurlitt apartment
- The wrong title, the right painting
Artist dossiers
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Andy Warhol
- Banksy
- Camille Pissarro
- Cândido Portinari
- Caravaggio
- Claude Monet
- Francis Bacon
- Francisco Goya
- Frans Hals
- Gottfried Lindauer
- Gustav Klimt
- Henri Matisse
- Jasper Johns
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Lee U-fan
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre Louis Goudreaux
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Salvador Dalí
- Salvator Rosa
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Willem de Kooning
Countries
- Argentina (5)
- Australia (15)
- Austria (17)
- Belgium (9)
- Benin (1)
- Brazil (8)
- Cambodia (4)
- Canada (23)
- China (3)
- Cyprus (3)
- Czechia (1)
- Egypt (4)
- France (73)
- Georgia (1)
- Germany (89)
- Greece (5)
- Hungary (4)
- India (6)
- Iran (1)
- Iraq (3)
- Ireland (2)
- Israel (5)
- Italy (51)
- Japan (5)
- Liechtenstein (1)
- Mexico (8)
- Morocco (1)
- Nepal (8)
- Netherlands (95)
- New Zealand (9)
- Nigeria (4)
- Norway (4)
- Peru (5)
- Poland (10)
- Romania (4)
- Russia (2)
- Serbia (2)
- South Africa (2)
- South Korea (7)
- Spain (15)
- Sweden (4)
- Switzerland (8)
- Thailand (1)
- Turkey (1)
- Ukraine (6)
- United Kingdom (79)
- United States (189)
- Venezuela (1)
Reward cases
- Raphael — Portrait of a Young Man (1513/14)
- Otto Dix — Elsa, the Countess (1921)
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes — Picadors with Bulls Before a Tower (1787)
- Gustave Courbet — The Wave (1870)
- Cima da Conegliano — Virgin and Child (c.1500)
- Max Liebermann — The Artist's Wife (Martha Liebermann) Asleep (c. 1885)
- Claude Monet — Thaw
- Anthony van Dyck — Crucifixion with Mary, Mary Magdalene, and St. Francis of Assisi
- Northern Persia — Ispahan carpet fragment (c. 1560)
- Emil Nolde — Sultan & Lady (1919)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (attributed to) — Mask of a Faun (c. 1489)
- Lucas Cranach the Elder — Saint George (c. 1525)
- Annibale Carracci — Self-Portrait
- Paul Klee — Landscape with Blue and Red Trees (1920)
- Anthony van Dyck (school of) — Madonna and Child with Saint (17th century)
- Piet Mondrian — Painting No. 2 (1926)
- Canaletto — The Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice (18th century)
- Emil Nolde — Vase with Poppies (1907)
- Lovis Corinth — Tyrolean with Cat (1913)
- Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) Albums — brown leather-bound photograph album
- Albrecht Dürer — A Lying Lioness
- Raphael — Madonna of the Veil (16th century)
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Three Boys in Blue (1915)
- Jan Brueghel the Elder — A Garland of Flowers Surrounding a Picture of Flora
- Benozzo Gozzoli — Virgin and Child with Saints (c.1450)
- Unknown (Fatimid Period) — Triangular rock crystal reliquary (10th century)
- Dosso Dossi — Christ the Redeemer
- Guercino — Hercules and Omphale
- Jan and Hubert van Eyck — The Righteous Judges panel from the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Ghent Altarpiece) (c.1430-1432)
- Unknown (Northwest Germany) — Reliquary in the form of a crucifix (12th century)
- Albrecht Dürer — Saint Christopher Carrying the Baby Jesus (c.1471-1493)
- Caravaggio — Portrait of a Young Woman (Fillide Melandroni) (c.1598)
- Władysław Czachórski — Cleopatra
- Jan van Huysum — Vase of Flowers and a Bird’s Nest
- Hans Memling — Portrait of a Young Man (c.1480-1490)
- Gemäldegalerie Linz Albums — black leather-bound photograph album
- Jan Brueghel the Elder — Still Life with Flowers
- Aelbert Cuyp — Spring Landscape with Pool (c. 1640)
- Guercino — Medoro and Angelica
- Palma il Vecchio — Virgin and Child with Saints
- Vincent van Gogh — The Painter on the Way to Tarascon -1888
- Egon Schiele — Boats Mirrored in the Water (1908)
- Emanuel de Witte — Interior of a Gothic Church (1668)
- Mary Erickson — Ocean Light
- LeRoy Neiman — Oscar de la Hoya – Shane Mosley
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts — 1972 theft
All reports by year
2026
- · Timothy Schmalz’s bronze figure of Jesus stolen from Surrey school · Art theft
- · Life-size bronze of a seated woman stolen from an Essen cemetery · Art theft
- · Wooden wild boar sculpture stolen from Werl playground · Art theft
- · Helen Denerley’s metal bird sculpture returned to Inverness theatre · Art restitution
- · Portland police seek stolen miniature horse figurines after arrest · Art theft
- · Max Slevogt’s Paradiesvögel restituted to Eduard Fuchs’s heirs · Art restitution
- · Nevada court sentences dealer for falsely marketing art as Native American-made · Art forgery
- · Hans Arp bronze reported stolen at Art Cologne · Art theft
- · Brazilian police execute search warrants in stolen cultural property inquiry · Art court dispute
- · Missing 18th-century Nossa Senhora do Rosário sculpture recovered · Recovered art
- · Police seek Ernst Sauer’s stolen bronze Der Liegende · Art theft
- · Rubens oil sketch returns to Gotha after a negotiated settlement · Art restitution
- · Ba court remands suspect in alleged temple-statue thefts · Art court dispute
- · Campus police recover all four stolen Mimbres ceramic vessels · Recovered art
- · Federal forfeiture of antiquities seized in Florida · Art court dispute
- · Four placed under formal investigation in Lalique and Montans thefts · Art court dispute
- · Eighteen recovered Khmer objects handed to Cambodia’s embassy · Art restitution
- · Australia hands two Northern Song tomb sculptures back to China · Art restitution
- · Mexico City judge orders proceedings in alleged fraud over paintings attributed to Kahlo and Siqueiros · Art court dispute
- · Four stolen 17th-century books returned to a Catania church · Art restitution
- · Portrait de femme en bleu restituted to Gabrielle Philippson's heirs and reacquired for Tarbes · Art restitution
- · Lipton Cup still missing; arrested man released without charge · Art theft
- · French court orders restitution of Pissarro to Salomon Flavian heirs · Art court dispute
- · Georgia O’Keeffe landscape resurfaces in a New York apartment · Art archive
- · Sweden transfers ownership of 39 Benin objects to Nigeria · Art restitution
- · Stolen liturgical silverware recovered and returned to Malonno church · Art restitution
- · Stolen Virgen de la Leche painting recovered in Lima · Recovered art
- · Six Picasso prints recovered near Cannes · Recovered art
- · French investigation follows Picasso heirs’ precious-metal forgery complaint · Art forgery
- · Bronze sculpture valued at about C$175,000 stolen in central Waterloo · Art theft
- · Gendarmerie confirms return of six Picasso prints stolen in Mougins · Art restitution
- · Life-size bronze woman stolen from a Duisburg family grave · Art theft
- · Restituted Albert Theer miniature goes on view in Minneapolis · Art restitution
- · 54 seized antiquities formally assigned to the Italian state · Art restitution
- · Duyster’s Le Buveur located in Switzerland; return still pending · Recovered art
- · Man sentenced for theft of antique map from Greenwich museum · Art court dispute
- · Ownership claims keep Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser off the market · Art court dispute
- · Miami art dealer sentenced to 46 months in forged Warhol case · Art forgery
- · La Tricoteuse: Court of Cassation rejects Bauer heirs’ restitution claim · Art court dispute
- · Secwépemc landmark sculpture stolen from Tappen Bluffs · Art theft
- · Court summons issued after hedgehog statue theft · Art theft
- · Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir recovered · Recovered art
- · Salvador Dalí bronze book cover stolen · Art theft
- · Police seek untitled Elfi Frauendorf work stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Spanish officials consider a religious painting previously given to Bayeu a possible Goya · Art archive
- · Greece receives ancient Cretan armor in a New York repatriation · Art restitution
- · Palermo investigation recovers art and antiquities worth about €400,000 · Recovered art
- · Two Eastman Johnson paintings recovered after about 50 years · Recovered art
- · Karin de Beer's Tiori Toru stolen from Whangārei's Hundertwasser Art Centre · Art theft
- · Police recover stolen bronze bust of Suni Lee · Recovered art
- · 48 cultural artifacts returned to Egypt · Art restitution
- · Painting of golfers stolen in Berlin burglary · Art theft
- · Vienna museum attributes the face in a portrait of an elderly man to Bernini · Art archive
- · Police investigate disappearance of more than 200 Mozart figures in Salzburg · Art theft
- · Eight Matisse works recovered, five Portinari works still missing at the time of reporting · Recovered art
- · Four Renaissance artworks stolen from museum in Messina · Art theft
- · Paintings by Cézanne, Matisse and Renoir recovered in Italy · Recovered art
- · Mauritshuis restores an obscured soldier in a Pieter de Hooch courtyard scene · Art archive
- · Picasso’s Torero etching recovered eight years after theft · Recovered art
- · Fra Angelico’s restored altarpiece returns to its church in Fiesole · Art archive
- · Stolen figure from Tuan Nguyen's Thank You America monument recovered in San Jose · Recovered art
- · Iris Ulbricht’s Murmel stolen from Berlin exhibition · Art theft
- · Metropolitan Museum repatriates a Nayarit ceramic figure to Mexico · Art restitution
- · Bronze Pine figure reported stolen in Pirna · Art theft
- · Romanian and Italian police recover ten paintings stolen from Bassano del Grappa · Recovered art
- · Two looted Avalokiteshvara bronzes returned to Indonesia · Art restitution
- · Sotheby’s flags forged provenance in case ending with prison sentence · Art forgery
- · Return advised for a Van Goyen painting at the Mauritshuis · Art archive
- · Filippos Giapanis’s Balance stolen from Cyprus sculpture park · Art theft
- · Thomas Doyle pleads guilty in Gustave Courbet painting fraud · Art court dispute
- · Paris court finds Sotheby’s France at fault in Mübin Orhon sale · Art court dispute
- · Padmapani and Nrtyadevi sculptures returned to Nepal · Art restitution
- · Buyer contests a Medardo Rosso bronze sold by Drouot Estimations · Art court dispute
- · Stolen Ermenegildo Zegna trophy remains missing despite reward · Art theft
- · US Supreme Court declines to hear Van Gogh Sunflowers restitution appeal · Art court dispute
- · New York appeals court lifts stay in dispute over Christie’s Degas sale · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for thirty objects linked to the Stodel dealership · Art archive
- · Father and daughter plead guilty in 200-work forgery scheme · Art forgery
- · Bronze figure recovered after disappearing from a sculpture park · Recovered art
- · Poland reports recoveries including stained glass and two paintings · Recovered art
- · Dutch committee rejects claim to fourteen plates linked to Abraham Citroen · Art archive
- · Clare Haggas’s Making Amends stolen at Cheltenham Festival · Art theft
- · Belgian prosecutors allege forgery of Russian avant-garde works shown in Ghent · Art forgery
- · Coțofenești Helmet and two bracelets returned to Romania; third bracelet still missing · Art restitution
- · Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings stolen from private museum · Art theft
- · FBI returns 48 cultural objects to Peru · Art restitution
- · Bronze deer stolen from outside a Lyndhurst property · Art theft
- · Proposed Michelangelo attribution for the Spirituali Pietà draws a challenge · Art archive
- · Return advised for objects from the Van Leeuwen dealerships · Art archive
- · Rijksmuseum researchers reattribute a 1633 painting to Rembrandt · Art archive
- · Mexico launches legal action over 40 objects in Millon’s Paris sale · Art court dispute
- · Possible self-portrait by Master I.S. resurfaces for Leiden exhibition · Art archive
- · Teddy Baldock bronze statue stolen from Langdon Park · Art theft
- · Two historic objects recovered after theft from a Montana museum display · Recovered art
- · Up to €1 million advertised for paintings stolen in Valais · Art theft
- · One Jackson Pollock work still missing after 1973 Cambridge theft · Recovered art
2025
- · Stolen Etruscan bronze warrior returned to Bologna museum · Art restitution
- · Insurers consider reward for stolen Lausanne-Vidy museum coins · Art theft
- · Oil painting stolen from an office in Berlin-Steglitz · Art theft
- · More than 600 objects stolen from Bristol Museums storage · Art theft
- · Matisse and Portinari works stolen from library · Art theft
- · Collector sues Sotheby’s over disputed Modigliani buyback · Art court dispute
- · Nelson Mandela print stolen from Liverpool’s St George’s Hall · Art theft
- · Fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript leaf recovered for Rome’s Aracoeli basilica · Recovered art
- · Operation Dora Maar seizes suspected Picasso, Rubens and Rembrandt forgeries · Art forgery
- · Louvre jewels added to INTERPOL stolen art database · Art theft
- · UNESCO documents reconstruction of Mosul’s damaged heritage · Art archive
- · Sotheby’s notifies regulators of a data breach · Art archive
- · Dutch committee backs partial restitution in Morpurgo dealership case · Art archive
- · Italy seizes 21 suspected Dalí forgeries from an exhibition in Parma · Art forgery
- · Federal court orders forfeiture of 14 Egyptian antiquities · Art court dispute
- · Albert Heinrich Brendel painting stolen in Chile recovered in Argentina · Recovered art
- · Two de Belsunce portraits stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Three Fédor Löwenstein paintings returned to the artist’s family · Art restitution
- · Carter Reese sentenced in counterfeit art scheme · Art forgery
- · Ohio auction halted after two Schloss paintings are identified · Recovered art
- · Only fragments of Llew Summers’s Flight recovered · Recovered art
- · South Australian Museum returns two Māori ancestral carvings · Art restitution
- · FBI returns ancient chariot model and flask to Cyprus · Art restitution
- · FBI returns a manuscript page signed by Hernán Cortés to Mexico · Art restitution
- · Amelia Earhart statue returned to Harbour Grace after recovery in pieces · Art restitution
- · US appeals court upholds sanctions in Peter Doig attribution case · Art court dispute
- · Two stolen bronze sculptures returned to a Berlin cemetery · Art restitution
- · Buyer challenges Christie’s disclosures on a Picasso’s former ownership · Art court dispute
- · Antonio Solario’s Madonna and Child returns to Belluno after a 1973 museum theft · Recovered art
- · Rome investigation seizes suspected Picasso, Munch and Klee counterfeits · Art forgery
- · Phillips sues David Mimran over a Jackson Pollock guarantee · Art court dispute
- · Dutch National Archives recover 25 stolen historical documents · Recovered art
- · Two bronze statues stolen from a Tokyo public park · Art theft
- · Return advised for Johannes Bosschaert’s Fruit Still Life · Art archive
- · Romania pursues El Greco’s Saint Sebastian after withdrawn Christie’s sale · Art court dispute
- · Anaheim police recover two stolen Sir Daniel Winn sculptures · Recovered art
- · Two men jailed over the theft of Cattelan’s gold toilet · Art court dispute
- · Bill Pallot and Bruno Desnoues convicted in the fake royal furniture case · Art forgery
- · Early Turner painting rediscovered after a signature emerges during cleaning · Art archive
- · Higgins and Sharp paintings returned to Harwood after forty years · Art restitution
- · Four Torah binders returned to the Jewish community of Würzburg · Art restitution
- · Pandora IX: over 37,000 cultural objects seized · Recovered art
- · Stolen Avalokitesvara statue returns from South Korea to Tsushima · Art restitution
- · Sotheby’s postpones Piprahwa relic auction after India intervenes · Art archive
- · Silberberg trust and Bührle Foundation reach an agreement over Manet’s La Sultane · Art archive
- · New York court rules on seizure of Schiele’s Russian War Prisoner · Art court dispute
- · Indictment in alleged sale of stolen Warhol trial proof · Art court dispute
- · Mauritshuis reassesses three paintings associated with Rembrandt · Art archive
- · Fragments recovered from stolen Hobart orphan memorial sculptures · Recovered art
- · Stolen Sacred Heart sculpture returned after 26 years · Art restitution
- · Stolen George Washington portrait recovered in Colorado · Recovered art
- · Return advised for Benjamin Cuyp’s An Angel Opens the Grave of Christ · Art archive
- · UK panel backs return of Henry Gibbs’s Aeneas to the Hartveld heirs · Art archive
- · Two stone sculptures returned to Cambodia · Art restitution
- · Fra Angelico’s Deposition returns to view after two years of restoration · Art archive
- · Art adviser Lisa Schiff sentenced to thirty months for client fraud · Art court dispute
- · Bronze angel sculpture stolen from Rostock cemetery · Art theft
- · Cassirer Pissarro dispute sent back for reconsideration · Art court dispute
- · Art Institute of Chicago announces return of Muchalinda Buddha to Nepal · Art restitution
- · Dutch committee backs return of a Roman bronze portrait bust · Art archive
- · Return advised for Liebermann drawing of his wife and daughter · Art archive
- · New York returns 11 Greek antiquities · Art restitution
- · New York court dismisses Picasso restitution claim · Art court dispute
- · Italian police find a suspected forgery workshop in a Rome residence · Art forgery
- · Three stolen Spanish artworks recovered in Italy · Recovered art
- · Lunita July Dorn painting stolen during Berlin opening · Art theft
- · Long-lost Strawberry Hill miniature attributed to Lavinia Fontana · Art archive
- · Bronze Dalmatian sculpture stolen in Sudbury · Art theft
- · Dutch committee backs three of seven Nijstad claims · Art archive
- · Three Maud Lewis painted Christmas cards reported stolen in Halifax · Art theft
- · Ruthild Hahne bronze head stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Anne Curry bronze sculpture stolen from her garden · Art theft
- · Dorset Police seek paintings stolen from Lyme Regis art studio · Art theft
2024
- · Hong Kong buyer files suit over a disputed painting attributed to Lee Ufan · Art court dispute
- · Seven Jean-Noel Schramm watercolours stolen from Berlin hospital · Art theft
- · Greek police seize 930 artworks in Thessaloniki forgery investigation · Art forgery
- · Bonhams reoffers a Roman silver plate amid claims it was looted · Art archive
- · Manhattan returns 30 antiquities to Mexico · Art restitution
- · Nine Itamar Zion Yehiel embroideries stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Return advised for oak cabinet from Mozes Mogrobi’s collection · Art archive
- · Van Gogh landscape authenticated and exhibited in Warsaw · Art archive
- · Sotheby’s agrees to $6.25 million New York sales-tax settlement · Art court dispute
- · Rijksmuseum begins removing old varnish from Rembrandt’s Night Watch · Art archive
- · Operation Cariatide: Eurojust reports seizure of around 2,000 fake artworks · Art forgery
- · Two Andy Warhol prints stolen from gallery · Art theft
- · New York judge allows part of Deborah Roberts’s collage copyright case to proceed · Art court dispute
- · Bronze statue of Tuskegee Airman Alexander Jefferson recovered · Recovered art
- · Return advised for Rijksmuseum drawing Two Women’s Heads · Art archive
- · Nazi-looted Claude Monet artwork returned · Art restitution
- · Five-year sentence in Norval Morrisseau forgery case · Art forgery
- · Return advised for two Hiegentlich porcelain figures · Art archive
- · Sparkly Bear sculpture stolen with a truck and crane in Brunswick · Art theft
- · Oil painting of a monk with a jug stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Banksy's Girl with Balloon recovered · Recovered art
- · Stolen Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill located in Italy · Recovered art
- · Bronze statue of St. Teresa of Avila stolen from Ancaster cemetery · Art theft
- · Manhattan returns 14 antiquities to Türkiye · Art restitution
- · Belgium reports convictions after fake artworks seized from Brussels galleries · Art forgery
- · Mondex settles fee dispute over restituted Chagall · Art court dispute
- · Prado examination identifies a supposed Leonardo portrait as a later imitation · Art forgery
- · Police seize three paintings falsely attributed to Picasso in Valencia · Art forgery
- · Schiele's Seated Nude Woman returned by the Papanek family to Grünbaum's heirs · Art restitution
- · Twenty cultural objects handed back to Australia’s Warumungu community · Art restitution
- · Pandora VIII: over 6,400 objects recovered · Recovered art
- · Amorsolo’s Mango Harvesters recovered after Silay museum theft · Recovered art
- · Met announces physical return of 14 sculptures to Cambodia · Art restitution
- · Sir Joseph Banks memorial sculpture stolen from Canberra gardens · Art theft
- · Heinrich Martens bronze girl stolen from Monheim civic centre · Art theft
- · Ernst Fuchs Museum increases reward for stolen painting · Art theft
- · Titian: historical reward and recovery · Art restitution
- · Conservation reveals later alterations to Rubens’s Judgement of Paris · Art archive
- · Artist Susanna Blunt sues dealer over missing and damaged works · Art court dispute
- · Compensation agreement keeps Kirchner’s chess scene at Brücke-Museum · Art court dispute
- · Paris appeal court upholds dismissal of Daniel Druet’s Cattelan authorship claims · Art court dispute
- · Christie’s faces class-action complaint after customer data breach · Art court dispute
- · Rotterdam restitution opinion covers Liebermann’s Girl Writing at a Table · Art archive
- · Appeals court allows Houston museum to keep disputed Bellotto painting · Art court dispute
- · Amsterdam agrees to return Matisse’s Odalisque to the Stern heirs · Art archive
- · Return advised for twelve works from the Mogrobi collection · Art archive
- · Golden Boy and Kneeling Woman returned to Thailand · Art restitution
- · Spanish police recover Francis Bacon painting · Recovered art
- · Spanish police seize 22 suspected counterfeit paintings offered for sale · Art forgery
- · Stolen Quellinus double portrait returns to Chatsworth after 45 years · Recovered art
- · Picasso seller’s claims against Sotheby’s partly survive a dismissal motion · Art court dispute
- · European court upholds Italy’s confiscation order for Victorious Youth · Art court dispute
- · Salvator Rosa painting returned to Oxford gallery · Art restitution
- · Restored paintings rescued from the Notre-Dame fire set for a Paris exhibition · Art archive
- · Private reward offered after Harawene dog sculpture theft · Art theft
- · Christie’s withdraws four Greek vessels after provenance questions · Art archive
- · Earl Marshawn Washington sentenced in counterfeit woodcut scheme · Art forgery
- · Henry the bronze stag stolen from Alison Cork’s London home · Art theft
- · Bavaria returns three works from Jakob Goldschmidt’s collection · Art restitution
- · Spanish police investigate sale of fake Banksy works · Art forgery
- · Brian Walshe sentenced in counterfeit Warhol scheme · Art forgery
- · Two stolen colonial religious paintings repatriated to Peru · Art restitution
- · Two paintings stolen from a church near Lake Titicaca returned to Peru · Art restitution
- · Stolen Marc Chagall lithograph Eve recovered in New York · Recovered art
- · Fowler Museum hands seven royal objects back to the Asante kingdom · Art restitution
- · Return advised for Fighting Card Players to the Van Praag heirs · Art archive
- · Neureuther’s 1827 view of Munich stolen from storage · Art theft
- · New York jury clears Sotheby’s in Rybolovlev art fraud suit · Art court dispute
- · John Opie’s The Schoolmistress returned after more than fifty years · Art restitution
- · Richard Prince copyright suits over New Portraits end in agreed judgments · Art court dispute
- · Charles Fazzino porcelain apple stolen from a Hamburg gallery · Art theft
- · Picasso and Chagall paintings stolen in Tel Aviv found in Antwerp · Recovered art
2023
- · Adam and Eve returned to Goudstikker heir · Art restitution
- · Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits presented after Rijksmuseum research · Art archive
- · Four Nepalese antiquities returned, including two Bhairava masks · Art restitution
- · Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus returns to view after conservation · Art archive
- · Still life formerly attributed to Chardin returned to museum · Art restitution
- · Lewke’s Cannon and five other looted Kandyan objects return to Sri Lanka · Art restitution
- · Leaping-woman statue stolen from The Grove Hotel grounds · Art theft
- · Richard Forbes bronze horse head stolen from Vancouver gallery · Art theft
- · Jellyfish sculpture stolen from Calgary’s Beakerhead festival · Art theft
- · Conservation at Princeton reveals a Rubens beneath layers of overpainting · Art archive
- · Lauterer landscape returned to the Bavarian State Painting Collections · Art restitution
- · Japanese bronze hawk incense burner stolen from Alton auction house · Art theft
- · Six paintings stolen from Medemblik town hall delivered to Arthur Brand · Recovered art
- · Erik van Lieshout and Andy Hope 1930 paintings stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Met signs return agreement for two further Nepalese sculptures · Art restitution
- · House of Ni’isjoohl memorial pole returns from Scotland to the Nass Valley · Art restitution
- · Stolen Edo-period Buddha sculpture recovered in Los Angeles · Recovered art
- · Royal Collection reattributes Susanna and the Elders to Artemisia Gentileschi · Art archive
- · Seven Egon Schiele works returned to Fritz Grünbaum's heirs · Art restitution
- · Return advised for Moeyaert painting from the Hamburger collection · Art archive
- · Rotterdam restitution opinion covers an ivory Virgin and Child · Art archive
- · Return advised for Bakker Korff’s The Aunts Go on a Journey · Art archive
- · 33 Khmer antiquities returned to Cambodia · Art restitution
- · Stolen Singer Laren Van Gogh recovered · Recovered art
- · John Greer’s bronze Feather stolen from Guelph sculpture park · Art theft
- · Basquiat case update: community service and probation for Barzman · Art forgery
- · Guilty plea in fake Peter Max painting scheme · Art forgery
- · Ownership of three Cham bronzes returned to Cambodia · Art restitution
- · Balthasar Lobo’s Mutter mit Kind stolen in Berlin foundry burglary · Art theft
- · Carabinieri hand over Jasper Geeraerts still life taken in Venice · Recovered art
- · Netherlands transfers the Lombok treasure and Singasari statues to Indonesia · Art restitution
- · Monumento 9: Olmec relief returned to Mexico · Art restitution
- · Lempertz plans Pechstein sale after settlement with Walter Blank’s heirs · Art archive
- · Lino Frongia arrested amid investigation into suspected Old Master forgeries · Art forgery
- · Roland Lindner bronze heron stolen from a Berlin-Frohnau garden · Art theft
- · Hagen returns and repurchases Renoir seascape · Art restitution
- · Binding opinion records settlement over Jacques d’Arthois landscape · Art archive
- · Camille Malfroy bronze recovered and returned · Art restitution
- · US Supreme Court rules on the licensing of Warhol’s Prince portrait · Art court dispute
- · Pandora VII: over 11,000 objects recovered · Recovered art
- · Stolen Hanuman temple sculpture returned to India · Art restitution
- · Plea agreement in Orlando fake Basquiat case · Art forgery
- · Centre Pompidou restores three paintings damaged in the Beirut explosion · Art archive
- · Courbet’s La Ronde Enfantine and the Robert Bing restitution · Art restitution
- · Ownership dispute over Van Gogh’s The Novel Reader settles · Art court dispute
- · Mexico challenges 83 pre-Columbian objects offered by Millon · Art archive
- · Ernst Fuchs’s Daphne bronze missing from Vienna exhibition · Art theft
- · Police recover nine Hermann Nitsch works in a cross-border investigation · Recovered art
- · Two Dave the Chimp drawings stolen from Berlin exhibition · Art theft
- · Fifteenth-century Madonna returned to Siena cathedral museum · Recovered art
- · Madrid court sentences collector over 15 forgeries offered at auction · Art forgery
- · Three Littmann collection paintings restituted by Neue Nationalgalerie · Art restitution
- · Frau am Fluss bronze stolen from Duisburg’s Goerdeler Park · Art theft
- · Paris court orders Christie’s to return a looted Van der Werff painting · Art court dispute
- · Six sculptures stolen from Bochum’s Stadtpark · Art theft
- · Spain returns a looted diptych from the workshop of Dieric Bouts to Poland · Art restitution
- · Five paintings recovered in Colorado after art transport theft · Recovered art
- · Reinhold Böltzig’s Reifenwerferin stolen from former embassy grounds · Art theft
2022
- · Germany hands Benin bronzes back to Nigeria in Abuja · Art restitution
- · 31 objects recovered from Dresden’s Green Vault heist · Recovered art
- · Two Lindauer portraits returned after five years · Art restitution
- · Piero della Francesca’s Nativity returns to view after restoration · Art archive
- · Horniman transfers ownership of 72 objects to Nigeria; first six due for handover · Art restitution
- · Two Suzi Malin paintings recovered from a stolen London archive · Recovered art
- · Giquello auction proceeds despite Mexico’s objections to 62 lots · Art archive
- · Hague opinion backs return of a goblet holder and dish from the Budge collection · Art archive
- · Return advised for Rijksmuseum’s pair of Johannes Lutma salts · Art archive
- · New York court dismisses claim over the medieval Bird’s Head Haggadah · Art court dispute
- · Peru confirms the return of two colonial-era church paintings · Art restitution
- · Spanish police seize three purported Velázquez and Titian paintings · Art forgery
- · Carabinieri recover a painting attributed to Strozzi after a 1998 church theft · Recovered art
- · Elena Panknin bronze sculpture stolen during Berlin exhibition opening · Art theft
- · Stolen Antonio Ligabue self-portrait recovered after a museum visitor recognized it · Recovered art
- · Sarah Księska’s Präparat stolen during London Frieze week · Art theft
- · Three US museums transfer ownership of 31 Benin works to Nigeria · Art restitution
- · New York appeals court upholds Diana Al-Hadid’s ownership ruling on a bronze sculpture · Art court dispute
- · Heavy bronze seal sculpture stolen from Wilhelmshaven storage yard · Art theft
- · Getty’s Poet and Sirens sculptures formally repatriated to Italy · Art restitution
- · Grayson Perry’s Alien Baby stolen from Bristol’s Hidden Gallery · Art theft
- · Twenty lead statues stolen from a Moreton-in-Marsh estate · Art theft
- · Fourteenth-century Durga stele returned to Nepal · Art restitution
- · Mona Lisa theft and return: a historical account · Art restitution
- · Met delivers a temple strut and Shiva sculpture to Nepal · Art restitution
- · Sol Poente and other stolen paintings recovered · Recovered art
- · Bronze lion stolen from Born Free outdoor exhibition in Bristol · Art theft
- · FBI recovers two Ammi Phillips portraits stolen in 1972 · Recovered art
- · National Museum of Slovenia cancels exhibition over suspected forgeries · Art forgery
- · Pieter Coecke van Aelst drawing returned to Feldmann heirs · Art restitution
- · Recovered de Kooning Woman-Ochre restored for its first exhibition since theft · Recovered art
- · Inigo Philbrick sentenced to seven years in art-finance fraud · Art court dispute
- · Vancouver police recover Marie Khouri bronze stolen from children’s hospital · Recovered art
- · Uffizi recover Holy Family painting stolen from a church in 1985 · Recovered art
- · Seven Ernesto Deira paintings return from Chile after fifty years · Art restitution
- · Christie’s withdraws Nolan amphora and Roman helmet over provenance questions · Art archive
- · US appeals court sides with Phillips over canceled Rudolf Stingel sale · Art court dispute
- · Gennaro Villani painting returned to Naples city hall · Art restitution
- · Milan court upholds authenticity finding on Jeff Koons’s Serpents sculpture · Art court dispute
- · Pandora VI: 9,408 cultural objects seized · Recovered art
- · Kandinsky painting returned to heirs after Amsterdam settlement · Art restitution
- · Adam van Breen’s Ice Skating returned to Goudstikker heir · Art restitution
- · Richie Culver’s Contemplation stolen from a Berlin auction house · Art theft
- · A Bernhard Strigel angel panel resurfaces in a Toulouse home · Art archive
2021
- · Picasso’s The Weeping Woman: reward and recovery revisited · Art restitution
- · Three-year sentence in Richard Hambleton forgery case · Art forgery
- · Competing claims to two landscapes resolved in favour of the Isay heirs · Art archive
- · France’s highest court upholds convictions in Zadkine bronze fraud case · Art forgery
- · Suzor-Coté oil painting stolen from Halifax gallery · Art theft
- · Twenty-six royal treasures of Abomey returned to Benin · Art restitution
- · Valencia police seize paintings in online Goya forgery investigation · Art forgery
- · Berlin returns and repurchases a Pissarro from the Dorville collection · Art restitution
- · Christian Rosa indicted over alleged Raymond Pettibon forgeries · Art forgery
- · Lehmbruck Museum restitutes Emil Nolde’s Buchsbaumgarten · Art restitution
- · Lore Plietzsch’s flute-playing children bronze stolen in Berlin · Art theft
- · Eight-year sentence for the Van Gogh and Frans Hals thefts · Art court dispute
- · Gilgamesh Dream Tablet returned to Iraq · Art restitution
- · Denver transfers ownership of Uma-Maheshvaramurti to Nepal · Art restitution
- · Portuguese police seize 35 suspected Malangatana forgeries · Art forgery
- · Goya’s Wellington theft revisited as archive documents are released · Art restitution
- · Sotheby’s sues consignors over suspected Diego Giacometti fakes · Art forgery
- · Paul van Hoeydonck’s Man in Space stolen from Berlin gallery · Art theft
- · Kwan Wu’s bronze figure of an Osage woman stolen in Kansas City · Art theft
- · New York court dismisses gallery suit against Italy over Alexander bust · Art court dispute
- · National Gallery of Australia announces return of fourteen works to India · Art restitution
- · German panel declines to recommend return of Lovis Corinth’s Portrait of Alfred Kerr · Art archive
- · Angel Pereda charged over purported Basquiat and Haring forgeries · Art forgery
- · France restitutes a Max Pechstein painting found in a museum basement · Art restitution
- · Lost avant-garde film Europa restored to the Themerson estate · Art restitution
- · Greek police recover Picasso and Mondrian paintings · Recovered art
- · Consignor withdraws five Nepalese figures from Bonhams sale · Art archive
- · Seventeenth-century Penitent Mary Magdalene recovered in Munich · Recovered art
- · Jeffrey Laudenslager offers reward after kinetic sculpture theft · Art theft
- · Reward advertised for paintings stolen in Pretoria hijacking · Art theft
- · Pandora V: over 56,000 cultural objects seized · Recovered art
- · Rudolf von Alt’s Naples returned to the Stern heirs · Art restitution
- · Stolen Roman statue recovered in Belgium and returned to Italy · Art restitution
- · Cologne restitutes Egon Schiele’s Crouching Female Nude · Art restitution
- · New York court bars gallery from displaying altered image of Pat Lipsky painting · Art court dispute
- · Lakshmi-Narayana stele returned to Nepal · Art restitution
- · Goldie painting recovered after Hamilton East burglary · Recovered art
- · Christie’s holds Paris pre-Columbian sale despite Mexico’s objections · Art archive
- · Counterfeit Blanche Hoschedé Monet painting helps expose forgery network · Art forgery
- · A Rembrandt portrait goes on display in Allentown after reattribution · Art archive
- · Milan court convicts dealer over attempted sale of a fake Josef Albers · Art forgery
- · Stolen Salvator Mundi copy recovered in a Naples apartment · Recovered art
- · Spanish scholars propose a new El Greco attribution for a painting of Christ · Art archive
2020
- · Stolen Leonaert Bramer painting returned to its owner · Art restitution
- · Court rejects Kandinsky restitution challenge in 2020 · Art court dispute
- · Erich Heckel’s Geschwister returned to the Fischer heirs · Art restitution
- · Dutch committee backs return of Platzer’s Marriage Feast at Cana · Art archive
- · Appeal rejected in Sotheby's dispute over a portrait attributed to Frans Hals · Art court dispute
- · Art Gallery of Ontario returns van Kessel still life to David family · Art restitution
- · William N. Copley work stolen from Berlin-Mitte gallery · Art theft
- · Two Bruno Bielefeld paintings sought after Berlin residential theft · Art theft
- · Gari Melchers's Winter returned to the heirs of the Mosse family · Art restitution
- · Six paintings stolen in Dallas during transport · Art theft
- · Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys stolen again · Art theft
- · 27 artworks stolen from the Wilfrid Israel Museum · Art theft
- · Christian Silvain settles imitation claims against Christie’s and Sotheby’s · Art court dispute
- · Phillips pursues damages over unpaid Morris Louis and Christopher Wool paintings · Art court dispute
- · Five-year sentence in Haring and Basquiat forgery scheme · Art forgery
- · Banksy’s stolen Bataclan mural recovered and returned to France · Art restitution
- · Rotterdam restitution opinion covers a bronze situla and candelabrum · Art archive
- · Judge awards Sotheby’s $2m over unpaid Keith Haring painting · Art court dispute
- · South Korea’s Supreme Court upholds artist Cho Young-nam’s fraud acquittal · Art court dispute
- · German panel backs a conditional return of Ochtervelt’s The Lemon Slice · Art archive
- · Christie’s withdraws four Greek and Roman antiquities amid looting concerns · Art archive
- · Stolen royal regalia return to cathedral after restoration · Art restitution
- · US appeals court bars Sotheby’s suit against Greece over ancient bronze horse · Art court dispute
- · New York court dismisses Cady Noland’s sculpture restoration lawsuit · Art court dispute
- · Athena II and Pandora IV: over 19,000 objects recovered · Recovered art
- · Christ Church theft: Van Dyck, Carracci and Rosa · Art theft
- · Van Gogh painting stolen from Singer Laren · Art theft
- · Ghada Amer ceramic sculpture taken from a Berlin gallery · Art theft
- · Dutch panel advises against returning View in the Woods in the Winter · Art archive
- · Pierre Louis Goudreaux’s An Amorous Couple returned to Ukraine · Art restitution
- · Missing Ethiopian ceremonial crown handed back in Addis Ababa · Art restitution
- · Three convicted in Bode Museum Big Maple Leaf theft · Art court dispute
- · Dalí sculptures and etchings stolen in Stockholm gallery raid · Art theft
- · Three works returned to the Dorville heirs · Art restitution
- · Five paintings stolen from Gotha in 1979 return to Friedenstein · Art restitution
- · Van Gogh Museum confirms authorship of the Oslo self-portrait · Art archive
- · Stolen fifteenth-century Divan of Hafez manuscript recovered · Recovered art
- · Painting found in gallery wall authenticated as stolen Klimt · Recovered art
2019
- · Police seek witnesses after Dresden’s Green Vault jewel theft · Art theft
- · Oscar Wilde friendship ring returns to Magdalen College · Art restitution
- · Six paintings from Brampton theft recovered at Ontario auction house · Recovered art
- · Joseph Wopfner’s Fishing Boats near Frauenchiemsee returned to the Isay heirs · Art restitution
- · Cimabue panel discovered during a house clearance sells in France · Art archive
- · Salvador Dalí etching stolen from San Francisco gallery · Art theft
- · Two Polly Rome bronze sculptures stolen from a Rockbourne home · Art theft
- · Return advised for 107 groups of objects from Franz Oppenheimer’s collection · Art archive
- · Return advised for fourteen Meissen porcelain objects · Art archive
- · Allegation concerning an Yves Klein work and a lawyer · Art court dispute
- · Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace · Art theft
- · Sentence following Renoir theft at Dorotheum · Art court dispute
- · Restitution dispute over Joshua Reynolds portrait in Japan · Art court dispute
- · Shakespeare’s Flower portrait: scientific examination · Art forgery
- · Three Kieron Williamson paintings stolen in Arizona · Art theft
- · Timothy Sammons sentenced for defrauding art clients · Art court dispute
- · Pandora III: over 18,000 cultural objects seized · Recovered art
- · Jan van Huysum’s Vase of Flowers returned to Italy · Art restitution
- · Stolen Gilbert & George work returns to display after decades · Recovered art
- · Bronze hare statues stolen from a Goodworth Clatford garden · Art theft
- · Warsaw revisits recovery of Houdon’s marble bust of Diana · Art restitution
- · New York appeals court rules for Grünbaum heirs over two Schiele works · Art court dispute
- · Egypt announces legal action over Tutankhamun-head sale · Art court dispute
- · Germany returns Paul Signac painting to Gaston Prosper Lévy heirs · Art restitution
- · Delacroix preparatory study rediscovered in a Paris home · Art archive
- · Painting attributed to Caravaggio sold privately before auction · Art archive
- · Golden egg stolen from Salvador Dalí’s Space Venus · Art theft
- · Max Stern heirs compensated over two paintings retained by buyers · Art archive
- · Preaching of Saint Vincent Ferrier rediscovered in a private collection · Art archive
- · Vivienne Scholl photograph stolen from Madrone Art Bar · Art theft
- · Appeal dismissed in stolen Frederick Goodall painting case · Art court dispute
- · Chez Tortoni and the works stolen from the Gardner Museum · Art theft
- · Equipment forfeiture ruling in Damien Hirst counterfeit case · Art forgery
- · Conservators uncover a hidden Cupid in a Vermeer in Dresden · Art archive
- · Recovered Carabinieri artworks exhibited at the Quirinale · Recovered art
- · Paul Signac painting stolen in Nancy recovered in Ukraine · Recovered art
- · Paris appeal court sentences dealers over counterfeit Rodin bronzes · Art forgery
- · Two stolen Vincent van Gogh paintings return to display after conservation · Art restitution
- · Italy recovers stolen Della Robbia relief and medieval predella · Recovered art
- · Donation pledges for the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral · Art archive
- · Amsterdam restitution opinion concerns Liebermann’s Jewish Quarter · Art archive
- · Two Old Masters returned to the heirs of Jacob Lierens · Art restitution
- · The Hammer’s head recovered in California; handle still missing · Recovered art
- · Stolen lion sculpture returned with flowers and an apology · Art restitution
- · Salomon Koninck painting returned to the Schloss heirs · Art restitution
- · Picasso’s Dora Maar portrait recovered after yacht theft · Recovered art
- · Civil forfeiture action seeks return of Goudreaux painting looted from Ukraine · Art court dispute
- · Thieves take a decoy after police safeguard a Brueghel Crucifixion · Art theft
- · Bronze sparrow stolen again from Yiota Ioannidou’s Paphos sculpture · Art theft
- · Kuindzhi’s Ai-Petri. Crimea recovered after Tretyakov theft · Recovered art
- · A.Y. Jackson landscape stolen from Toronto home · Art theft
- · Police recover Gregor Kregar’s Thinker sculpture in Auckland · Recovered art
- · Ann Pibal’s CBLT taken from New York’s Team Gallery · Art theft
- · Renaissance Madonna stolen from a church in Zele · Art theft
2018
- · Murillo’s Santa Catalina returned to Rosario after recovery in Uruguay · Art restitution
- · The theft of five masterpieces from the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris · Art theft
- · Lucas Cranach the Elder portrait returned to Fritz Gutmann heirs · Art restitution
- · Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting stolen from Vienna’s Dorotheum auction house · Art theft
- · Düsseldorf auctioneer returns Dutch seascape to Max Stern heirs · Art restitution
- · Prison sentences in Helsinki gallery forgery case · Art forgery
- · Persepolis guard relief returned to Iran following court order · Art restitution
- · Guggenheim agrees to restitute Kirchner’s Artillerymen · Art restitution
- · The Prado completes restoration of Bruegel’s Triumph of Death · Art archive
- · Melchior Geldorp portrait returned to the National Museum in Warsaw · Art restitution
- · Ginny: reward advertised for sculpture stolen in 1980 · Art theft
- · Renoir’s Two Women in a Garden returned to Weinberger’s heir · Art restitution
- · British Museum hands eight looted antiquities from Tello to Iraq · Art restitution
- · Royal funeral crowns and orb stolen from Strängnäs Cathedral · Art theft
- · Appeals court rejects restitution claim for Cranach panels · Art court dispute
- · Robert Motherwell’s Untitled returned to the Dedalus Foundation · Art restitution
- · Rediscovered Artemisia self-portrait acquired by London’s National Gallery · Art archive
- · Recovered Izaak van den Blocke altarpiece painting handed to Gdańsk museum · Art restitution
- · Banksy’s Trolley Hunters stolen from Toronto exhibition · Art theft
- · Stanley Spencer’s Cookham from Englefield returned to owners · Art restitution
- · Dealer seeks Christie’s refund after a Sisley painting is identified as Nazi loot · Art archive
- · Bergamo museum rediscovers a Mantegna in its collection · Art archive
- · Christie’s removes Etruscan amphora after questions about its provenance · Art archive
- · Return advised for a bronze Moses attributed to Alessandro Vittoria · Art archive
- · US files forfeiture action to return stolen Marc Chagall painting · Art court dispute
- · Australian court rejects Mossgreen administrators’ fees for returning consigned objects · Art court dispute
- · New York court dismisses Agnes Martin authentication suit · Art court dispute
- · Celle returns a forest landscape from the Alphons Jaffé collection · Art restitution
- · Confidential settlement in auction dispute involving Richter and Bacon · Art court dispute
- · German court convicts dealers in Russian avant-garde forgery case · Art forgery
- · Edgar Degas's Les Choristes recovered from a suitcase on a bus · Recovered art
- · Appeal ruling upholds sentences in Lee U-fan forgery case · Art forgery
- · Athena and Pandora II: over 41,000 objects seized · Recovered art
- · Prosecution expert identifies fakes in Genoa Modigliani show · Art forgery
2017
- · Five Hans Hofmann works recovered after Manhattan storage theft · Recovered art
- · Fernando Botero's Maternity stolen from a Paris gallery · Art theft
- · Return advised for a Philippus Endlich pastel in the Rijksmuseum · Art archive
- · Düsseldorf museum identifies a supposed Malevich as inauthentic · Art forgery
- · London returns Jacob Ochtervelt’s The Oyster Meal · Art restitution
- · Ghent returns two Frits Van den Berghe paintings to the David heirs · Art restitution
- · Guercino altarpiece recovered and entrusted for conservation · Recovered art
- · Fifteen stolen Georg Baselitz works recovered; four still missing in 2017 · Recovered art
- · Return advised for Van Wittel’s view of Grottaferrata abbey · Art archive
- · South Korea’s Supreme Court upholds sentence in Lee Jung-seob forgery case · Art forgery
- · Appeals court quashes Brett Whiteley art fraud convictions · Art court dispute
- · Two Gottfried Lindauer portraits stolen in Auckland gallery ram raid · Art theft
- · Norman Rockwell painting returned to family after four decades · Art restitution
- · Vienna police recover 67 paintings from the Hietzing theft · Recovered art
- · Paris art heist: sentences and disputed destruction claim · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for Tischbein’s Portrait of an Officer · Art archive
- · Dealer sentenced to 41 months for American art forgeries · Art forgery
- · Chilean police recover José Pedro Godoy’s Trémula V · Recovered art
- · Bath museum attributes Wedding Dance in the Open Air to Pieter Brueghel the Younger · Art archive
- · Verzijl’s Young Man as Bacchus returned to Max Stern’s heirs · Art restitution
- · Fraudster jailed in fake Norman Cornish paintings case · Art forgery
- · Prison terms in Lee U-fan forgery case · Art forgery
- · Sotheby’s declares disputed Saint Jerome a forgery · Art forgery
- · German panel backs return of Schmidt-Rottluff’s Marsh Landscape with Red Windmill · Art archive
2016
- · 17 works from Castelvecchio robbery returned to Italy · Art restitution
- · Carelli painting and illuminated manuscript material returned to Italy · Art restitution
- · Leon Zinder charged over sale of stolen African and Native American art · Art court dispute
- · Torlonia Peplophoros statue returned to Italy after thirty-three years · Art restitution
- · Berlin restitutes Reinhold Begas’s marble Susanna · Art restitution
- · Leonardo’s Saint John the Baptist returns to the Louvre galleries after conservation · Art archive
- · Two Van Gogh Museum paintings recovered near Naples · Recovered art
- · Australia returns two ancient sculptures to India · Art restitution
- · Five Westfries Museum paintings returned from Ukraine · Recovered art
- · US court authorizes seizure of Acoma ceremonial shield offered by EVE · Art court dispute
- · Paris court sentences Hôtel Drouot porters in auction theft case · Art court dispute
- · Dalí and Tamara de Lempicka works stolen in 2009 recovered · Recovered art
- · Authenticity dispute surrounds seventeen works at Ho Chi Minh City museum · Art forgery
- · Sam Tufnell’s Electric Blueberry gnome stolen from Florida museum · Art theft
- · Toledo Museum’s Ganesha bronze returned to India · Art restitution
- · Bremen returns and repurchases an Isaak Major drawing · Art restitution
- · St Petersburg court acquits art historian in Boris Grigoriev forgery case · Art court dispute
- · Im Kinsky withdraws Nazi-looted Van der Helst portrait at France’s request · Art archive
- · Seven Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup I prints stolen from Springfield Art Museum · Art theft
- · Swiss prosecutors seize disputed Modigliani after Panama Papers revelations · Art court dispute
- · Munch’s Historien lithograph recovered after seven years · Recovered art
- · AstaGuru withdraws painting attributed to Manjit Bawa after authenticity challenge · Art forgery
- · Dimensions undermine a Dutch claim for a hunting tapestry · Art archive
- · Christie’s sues over alleged unpaid balance on Basquiat painting · Art court dispute
- · Larry Ulvi sentenced in Mark Tobey art-forgery scheme · Art forgery
- · UK panel recommends provenance display for Ashmolean Gothic ivory · Art archive
- · Five stolen Luis Felipe Noé works recovered in Argentina · Recovered art
- · Eric Spoutz arrested and charged over alleged art forgeries · Art forgery
- · Fragment of stolen Kyjov/Gaya Pinkas returned to Prague · Art restitution
2015
- · Christie’s withdraws a Celtic dagger amid provenance concerns · Art archive
- · Gold bracelet and Serapis head at issue in Bachstitz claim · Art archive
- · FBI completes recovery of six stolen N.C. Wyeth paintings · Recovered art
- · Poly withdraws Hairdressing 2 after Geng Jianyi challenges its authenticity · Art forgery
- · Getty and Armenian Church settle dispute over eight illuminated pages · Art court dispute
- · Rodin’s Young Girl with Serpent recovered after Beverly Hills theft · Recovered art
- · Curator admits taking works and replacing them with fakes · Art forgery
- · Dutch committee backs return of The Riddle of Nijmegen · Art archive
- · Ownership dispute settled over stolen Madonna withdrawn by Sotheby’s · Art court dispute
- · Jasper Johns’s former assistant sentenced for selling stolen works · Art court dispute
- · Conditional return advised for Ferdinand Bol’s Bouwens and Van Nutt portraits · Art archive
- · Amsterdam restitution opinion covers a portrait of Joan Huydecoper · Art archive
- · Chinese and Thai artworks stolen from Fontainebleau palace · Art theft
- · Picasso’s La Coiffeuse seized in the United States · Recovered art
- · Court dismisses Sotheby’s negligence claim over a version of Caravaggio’s Cardsharps · Art court dispute
2014
- · Nine paintings recovered from the Encino art theft · Recovered art
- · Christie’s Australia held liable in disputed Albert Tucker sale · Art court dispute
- · John Re pleads guilty over purported Pollock and de Kooning works · Art forgery
- · Brian Ramnarine sentenced over counterfeit bronze sculptures · Art forgery
- · Shiva Nataraja sculpture returned from Australia to India · Art restitution
- · Cui Ruzhuo painting goes missing after Poly Auction sale · Art archive
- · Stolen Gauguin and Bonnard paintings found in Italy · Recovered art
- · Germany announces return of Guardi’s Palace Stairs to Poland · Art restitution
- · Renoir’s On the Shore of the Seine returns to museum · Art restitution
- · Nazi-looted Johann Conrad Seekatz painting returned to Poland · Art restitution
- · Two paintings returned to the heirs of Sam Bernhard Levie · Art restitution
- · Netscher’s Woman Feeding a Parrot returned to the Andriesse heirs · Art restitution
2013
- · Sotheby’s agrees to return a Koh Ker warrior statue to Cambodia · Art restitution
- · Return advised for Van Goyen landscape formerly owned by Gustaaf Hamburger · Art archive
- · 30 stolen paintings seized in Turkish raids · Recovered art
- · Christie’s sold a fake Rothko linked to the Knoedler affair · Art forgery
- · Henry Moore bronze stolen from Glenkiln Sculpture Park · Art theft
- · Glafira Rosales pleads guilty in Abstract Expressionist forgery scheme · Art forgery
- · Consignor admits false provenance for Egyptian objects offered by Bonhams and Christie’s · Art court dispute
- · Ensor, Van Dongen and other works stolen from Van Buuren Museum · Art theft
- · Reward doubled for Mother and Child sculpture stolen in Eau Claire · Art theft
- · Collector sues Sotheby’s over a Van Loo once owned by Göring · Art court dispute
- · Binding opinion backs return of The Landing Stage in the Semmel case · Art archive
- · Hopi representatives oppose sales of sacred katsinam in Paris · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for the Oppenheimer tapestry Chastity with Two Putti · Art archive
- · Christie’s withdraws four Nepalese manuscript covers · Art archive
- · Return advised for three Hamburger collection ceramic dishes · Art archive
2012
- · Ferdinand Bol portrait singled out in Katz dealership claim · Art archive
- · Return advised for Van Brekelenkam’s Interior with Card Players · Art archive
- · Return advised for Jan Steen’s river landscape to the Mautner heirs · Art archive
- · Dutch panel advises against returning two Annunciation sculptures · Art archive
- · Four of five Pretoria Art Museum paintings recovered · Recovered art
- · Seven works stolen from Kunsthal Rotterdam · Art theft
- · Roy Lichtenstein’s Electric Cord returned after 42 years · Art restitution
- · Lempertz ordered to compensate buyer for a forged Campendonk · Art court dispute
- · FBI appeals for Renoir stolen in Houston armed robbery · Art theft
- · Wiesbaden returns two Gennaro Greco paintings to the Tietz heirs · Art restitution
- · High Court rules on Christie’s sale of disputed Odalisque · Art court dispute
- · Bronze elements stolen from Güemes monument · Art theft
- · Stolen Henry Moore Sundial recovered · Recovered art
- · Painting believed to be Matisse’s Odalisque in Red Pants seized in FBI operation · Recovered art
- · Bavaria returns a Brueghel-workshop floral still life to the Kien heirs · Art restitution
- · Diamantides challenges a painting sold by Sotheby’s as a Parthenis · Art court dispute
- · All four paintings from the Bührle robbery returned · Art restitution
- · Return advised for a beech chest from the Van Leeuwen dealership · Art archive
- · Magritte’s Olympia returned after the 2009 museum robbery · Art restitution
- · Dealer sentenced in counterfeit Clementine Hunter art scheme · Art forgery
2011
- · Reward advertised after Barbara Hepworth sculpture theft · Art theft
- · Return advised for two paintings from the Édouard Jonas collection · Art archive
- · Wolfgang Beltracchi sentenced to six years in forgery case · Art forgery
- · Two Picasso paintings stolen in Switzerland recovered in Belgrade · Recovered art
- · Juriaen Pool’s Goldsmith Guild portrait returned to the Stern estate · Art restitution
- · Drawing attributed to Rembrandt found after hotel theft · Recovered art
- · Picasso’s Tête de Femme recovered after San Francisco gallery theft · Recovered art
- · Boston museum reaches settlement over Eglon van der Neer portrait · Art court dispute
- · Dutch committee recommends return of bronze Hercules · Art archive
- · Dutch committee rejects rival claims to Meunier’s Stonemason · Art archive
- · Return advised for a fifteenth-century Pietà from Fritz Gutmann’s collection · Art archive
- · Rodin bronze stolen from the Israel Museum · Art theft
- · Return advised for Saint Christopher from Otto Mayer’s collection · Art archive
- · Return advised for Hubert Robert’s Landscape with Classical Temple · Art archive
- · The Goddess of Morgantina returns to Sicily · Art restitution
- · Gustave Courbet’s Landscape near Ornans returned to the Herzog heirs · Art restitution
2010
- · Jan Brueghel the Younger’s Allegory of Earth and Water returned to Stern estate · Art restitution
- · The Beneventan Missal returns to the cathedral chapter · Art restitution
- · Appeals court affirms Boston museum’s ownership of Kokoschka painting · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for a Jan van de Velde winter landscape from Curt Glaser’s collection · Art archive
- · Painting attributed to Caravaggio handed back to Ukraine · Art restitution
- · Van Gogh’s Poppy Flowers stolen in Egypt · Art theft
- · $19 million settlement resolves Portrait of Wally dispute · Art court dispute
- · Prison sentences in the Guy Ribes art forgery ring · Art forgery
- · Return advised for Adrianus Eversen’s town view to the Stodel heirs · Art archive
- · Claude Monet’s Beach in Pourville recovered in Poland · Recovered art
2009
- · Korean court rules on Park Su-geun’s disputed Washing Place sold by Seoul Auction · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for a Verschuur watercolour from the Hollander collection · Art archive
- · Eleven Warhol portraits stolen from a Los Angeles home · Art theft
- · A red Picasso sketchbook disappears from the Paris museum · Art theft
- · Return advised for two paintings to the heirs of Leo Nardus · Art archive
- · China opposes Christie’s sale of two Old Summer Palace bronzes · Art court dispute
- · Four convicted in MASP Picasso and Portinari theft · Art court dispute
- · Court denies museums’ summary judgment motion in Picasso title dispute · Art court dispute
- · Art Fin. Partners pursues refunds from Christie’s after a cancelled auction transaction · Art court dispute
2008
- · Beijing court rejects buyer’s claim over disputed Wu Guanzhong attribution · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for Woman Playing a Lute to the Wassermann heirs · Art archive
- · Christie’s litigates the cancellation of a Picasso sculpture sale · Art court dispute
- · Guilty plea in Nice museum four-painting theft case · Art court dispute
- · Return advised for Corot’s Female Figure at a Well to the Behrens heirs · Art archive
- · Seoul Auction sues over four drawings attributed to Lee Jung-seob · Art forgery
- · Christie’s contests a lawsuit over a disputed Basquiat · Art court dispute
- · Collector challenges Sotheby’s assessment of a purported Renoir pastel · Art court dispute
- · The Met returns the Euphronios krater to Italy · Art restitution
- · Stolen Picasso and Portinari paintings returned to MASP · Art restitution
- · US court rules for Stern estate in Winterhalter restitution case · Art court dispute
2007
- · Dutch landscape returned to Max Stern’s estate with Christie’s assistance · Art restitution
- · Shaun Greenhalgh jailed in family art-forgery scheme · Art forgery
- · Buccleuch Madonna of the Yarnwinder recovered after four years · Recovered art
- · Picasso paintings stolen from granddaughter’s home · Art theft
- · Nicolas Neufchatel portrait restituted to Max Stern’s estate · Art restitution
- · Iran challenges a Christie’s sale of an Achaemenid relief · Art court dispute
- · Rodin’s The Thinker recovered damaged after Singer Laren theft · Recovered art
2006
- · Stolen colonial painting returned to Mexico from San Diego · Art restitution
- · Goya’s Children with a Cart recovered · Recovered art
- · Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Madonna recovered in Norway · Recovered art
- · Archive: stolen Budapest museum paintings return home in 1984 · Art restitution
- · UK panel recommends £175,000 payment over four Feldmann drawings · Art archive
- · Dalí, Matisse, Monet and Picasso works stolen from Rio museum · Art theft
- · Dutch government decides to restitute 202 Goudstikker artworks · Art court dispute
- · Cellini’s stolen Saliera recovered and returned to Vienna museum · Art restitution
- · Austrian arbitration orders return of five Klimt paintings · Art court dispute
2005
- · The Aksum Obelisk returns to Ethiopia · Art restitution
- · Courbet’s Femme nue couchée returned to the Hatvany heirs · Art restitution
2003
- · Over 100 gold boxes and precious objects stolen from Waddesdon Manor · Art theft
- · Three works recovered after theft from the Whitworth · Recovered art
2001
1999
- · Calvary returned to the Seligmann heirs · Art restitution
1994
- · The National Gallery’s Scream stolen and recovered in Oslo · Recovered art
- · The 1994 return of two works from Germany to France · Art restitution
1988
- · Three Van Gogh paintings stolen from the Kröller-Müller Museum · Recovered art
- · Van Gogh, Cézanne and Jongkind paintings recovered after Stedelijk theft · Recovered art
1986
- · Vermeer stolen from Russborough House and recovered · Recovered art
1985
- · Monet’s Impression, Sunrise stolen from the Marmottan · Recovered art
1950
- · Van Gogh’s Roses returned to the Hirschland heirs · Art restitution
1949
- · A Saxon powder flask returned to the Rothschild heirs · Art restitution
1948
- · Jan Victors’s The Slaughtered Hog returned to the Haas family · Art restitution
1947
- · A Van der Heyden painting returned to Karl Neuman · Art restitution
1946
- · Fantin-Latour self-portrait recovered and returned to France · Art restitution
- · Boudin’s On the Jetty returned to the Levy de Benzion family · Art restitution
1945
- · Two Brueghel paintings from the Andor Ullmann collection · Art archive
- · Six Klimt drawings from Bertalan Neményi’s collection · Art archive
- · Mauperché landscape returned to the Lanckoronski family · Art restitution
1942
- · Pissarro’s View of Paris traced to an ERR exchange · Art archive
- · Pissarro’s Country Road in the von Frey exchange · Art archive
- · Two Pissarro paintings recorded in one ERR exchange · Art archive
1941
- · Pissarro’s Tuileries Gardens in the Rochlitz exchange · Art archive