Showing posts with label art auctions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art auctions. Show all posts

Apr 30, 2022

Tracking Nazi-looted art dealers: Restitutions as data


What can we learn by analyzing the provenances of artworks which have been restituted to the heirs of Jewish art collectors persecuted by the Nazis?

Patterns. Repetition. Familiar faces. 

Those art dealers who just keep "popping up".

In this post we see what we can learn from the provenance published by auctions houses which have been authorized to sell previously looted art AFTER it has been restituted to the families.