Showing posts with label provenance research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label provenance research. Show all posts

Oct 4, 2023

Comparing 1961 and May 30 2019 provenances for Manet's La Sultane in the Bührle collection

How many times did the provenance change?
Word/Phrase 1961 Catalogue Count 2019 Bürhle website Count
dealer 1 0
silberberg 1 9
? 0 2
art market 0 1
by 0 7
rosenberg 0 5
might 0 1
until 0 1
no documents 0 1
was never really and completely owned by Silberberg 0 1

Edouard Manet

Young Woman in Oriental Garb

ca. 1871

Sep 12, 2023

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: no provenances for Picasso?

How can a major American museum fail to publish provenance information for European artworks created before 1933?
PhotoShort TitleDateAccNumCredit LineProvenance
Pedestal Table (Translation)192247.10.80T. Catesby Jones CollectionNO PROVENANCE
The Banjo Player (Primary Title)192147.10.81T. Catesby Jones CollectionNO PROVENANCE
The Horse (Primary Title)190185.795Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul MellonNO PROVENANCE
Head of a Peasant Woman (Former Title)190647.10.78T. Catesby Jones CollectionNO PROVENANCE
Still Life (Wineglass and Newspaper) (Primary Title)ca. 1913–447.10.83T. Catesby Jones CollectionNO PROVENANCE
Fool on Horseback (Former Title)190584.2Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul MellonNO PROVENANCE
Landscape (Translation)190747.10.79T. Catesby Jones CollectionNO PROVENANCE

Sep 2, 2023

DATASET: Latchford Wiener Hecht Sperling Klejman in provenances at Metropolitan Museum of Art

FLASH: 26 Doris Wiener provenances added 17SEP2023!

September 2, 2023

DATASET Metropolitan Museum of Art artworks with links to Douglas Latchford, Doris Wiener, Robert Hecht, Harry Sperling, John Klejman, Klaus G. Perls, Joseph Brummer 


Dataset name: Selection Latchford plus Metmuseum 2022


Description: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from information available on the public internet site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes the provenance and credit line information for artworks which mention Douglas Latchford, Doris Wiener, Robert Hecht, Harry Sperling, John Klejman, Klaus G. Perls, Joseph Brummer and others.  It is intended to facilitate research into antiquities provenance for scholars, art historians and investigators. 


Format: Google Sheet


URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTO8W-KpmI91d_l-l4LAoyp_alzQAPaIFAhug2YbStfvUeWMWqjmeAVtO-E4vA7PrOrzjza7b26s6DH/pubhtml?gid=995287093&single=true


Download: CSV



Contents:

  • Selection
  • Source
  • RetrievalDate
  • YEAR Acquired
  • Source Url
  • Title Date
  • Artist
  • Credit Line
  • Acc Num
  • Provenance (as published by the Metropolitan Museum on its website on March 29, 2022)
  • Description
  • Artist_Region
  • Artwork__tombstone Value


Publisher of Dataset: OAD


Date of Publication: September 2, 2023




Jul 25, 2023

British Museum Acquisitions from Spink and Sons: analysis with ChatGPT prompts


 QUESTION TO CHATGPT (code interpreter)

Spink and Sons is an art dealer involved in selling many looted artifacts. Please examine this file and tell me three ways it could be analysed to rank artworks most likely to have been looted

- Spink prov British Museum.csv

Jun 20, 2023

Picasso in Museums around the world

PROGRESS REPORT
Twenty-five years have passed since the Washington Conference on Holocaust era assets.
Yet there is still no central database of museum artworks with their provenances. Some museums - big museums, university art museums - still publish no provenance at all.
Projects are announced, appear, disappear, each separate. There is no central tracking of Nazi era provenance gaps.  The scale is enormous. The number of artworks with unclear ownership history for the Nazi era remains extremely high.

Given the enormity of the task, this post looks at the situation in museums for a single artist: Picasso.
(update ongoing)

 

Collection Before 1945 Image? Provenance? Nazi-era Gaps?
MoMA 659 yes sometimes yes
NGA 258 yes yes yes
Pompidou 59 yes no yes
Musée Picasso 4000+ all dates yes no unknown
Albertina 40 yes no yes
Hermitage 36 yes no yes
Fondation Beyeler 22 yes yes yes
Museums in Denmark 133 yes yes yes
UK Collections Trust 16 no yes yes
Pinakothek (Munich) 14 no no yes
Kunstmuseum Basel 66 yes NO yes
Kunstmuseum Bern 9 -on display or Gurlitt yes yes - PDF yes
Metropolitan Museum 56 yes yes yes
MFA 29 yes yes yes
DIA 21 NO yes yes
Harvard Art Museums 20 yes yes yes-11
Yale Art 35 yes yes yes
Cleveland 19 yes yes yes
Princeton Museum 6 yes NO yes
Emil Bührle Collection 5 yes yes yes
Musée d'Orsay 1 yes yes yes
Rose Art Museum 4 yes no yes
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Links:


Museum of Modern Art - MoMa (USA)

Query for Picasso (all)  1246 artworks all dates

(659 artworks is an estimation, because the query picks up some other artists as well)


NGA (USA): 


MFA Boston (USA)



UK Collections Trust:


Pinakothek (Munich)


Museums in Denmark



Rose Art Museum (USA)
* no provenance information *

Jun 3, 2023

Advisory Commission on the Return of Cultural Property Seized as a Result of Nazi persecution: recommendations in searchable text

This is a searchable text-only copy of recommendations originally published by the Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property  (Beratende Kommission NS-Raubgut)

  • Robert Graetz
  • Kurt and Else Grawi
  • Heinrich Rieger
  • Max Fischer
  • Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern
  • Max J. Emden
  • Max und Margarethe Rüdenberg
  • Felix Hildesheimer
  • Alfred Salomon 
  • Alfred Flechtheim
  • Ludwig Traube
  • Eduard L. Behrens
  • Clara Levy geb. Isaak
  • J.S. Goldschmidt, I. Rosenbaum und Z.M. Hackenbroch 
  • Paul Westheim
  • Alexander Lewin
  • Julius und Clara Freund

May 27, 2023

Using ChatGPT to detect language indicating uncertainty in provenance texts


In this conversation with the AI ChatBot, I asked it to look at the provenance text for Picasso's Woman with Pears, at the MoMa.


The provenance text on MoMa's website is:


[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris and/or Ambroise Vollard, Paris and/or Galerie Thannhauser, Munich] 
By September 7, 1919 (1912 or 1913?) - at least October 1932, Alfred Flechtheim and/or Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Berlin and London. 
By February 1934(?) - March 1937, The Mayor Gallery and/or Douglas Cooper, London. 
March 1937, Pierre Matisse Gallery (consignment no. 882, stock no. 594), New York, purchased from “Cooper”.  
March 31, 1937 - June 2, 1955, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, purchased from Pierre Matisse Gallery. 
June 2, 1955 - 1996, Florene May Marx (1903-1995, later Schoenborn) and Samuel A. Marx (1948–1964), Chicago, purchased from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. through M. Knoedler & Co. (consignment no. 4786), New York. 
1996, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as bequest from Florene May Schoenborn.



I asked ChatGPT to break the provenance text into sentences and to identify any indications of uncertainty or speculation in each. Then I requested that it present the results in a table.

(I requested that it view "and/or" as uncertain.)


Sentence Indications of Uncertainty or Speculation
[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris and/or Ambroise Vollard, Paris and/or Galerie Thannhauser, Munich] Indication of uncertainty in the gallery names
By September 7, 1919 (1912 or 1913?) - at least October 1932, Alfred Flechtheim and/or Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Berlin, and London. Uncertainty about the specific year (1912 or 1913) and presence of "and/or"

By February 1934(?) - March 1937, The Mayor Gallery and/or Douglas Cooper, London. Uncertainty about the specific date (February 1934) and presence of "and/or"

March 1937, Pierre Matisse Gallery (consignment no. 882, stock no. 594), New York, purchased from "Cooper." None


1996, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as bequest from Florene May Schoenborn. None

Then I asked ChatGPT: 


what is the first year for which there is solid information

ChatGPT replied:



The first year for which there is solid information in the given text is 1937.

May 1, 2023

Detecting looted art and forgery with help from ChatGPT

 Formulating questions for an AI Chatbot can be a good way to clarify issues and methodologies.

In the conversation below, I ask ChatGPT for help in detecting patterns in the false provenances of looted art and forgeries that have been identified and debunked. ChatGPT reformulates the questions and adds some insights that can be useful. 

(Introduction to a series on analyzing provenance with ChatGPT)


Can you help me to detect looted art and forgery?


Q?

Apr 16, 2023

Frank Perls and Degas posthumous art

"the posthumous impressions from his canceled plates by the Frank Perls Gallery began after 1939 some twenty-two years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917."


"Edgar Degas died in 1917. The ten so-called "sculptures in bronze" and "etchings" in the Denver Art Museum's February 11 to May 2018 Degas: A Passion for Perfection exhibition were posthumously cast and impressed after 1919 till as late as 1981, some 2 to 64 years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917."


read full article :

Degas: A Passion for FAKES at the Denver Art Museum


GARY ARSENEAU

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Related reading:



Feb 20, 2023

Tracking Looted Art 2: Sothebys Sales of Restituted Artworks as Data


The provenances of artworks restituted to Jewish families  plundered by Nazis contain valuable information for the art historian and Holocaust scholar.

Questions:
  • Which transactions occur between the seizure/sale under the Nazis and the restitution?
  • Which names appear in these transactions?
  • How often do they appear?



This post looks a a simple method for identifying the names of these buyers and sellers for further analysis. In this example, we look at the provenances of artworks sold at Sothebys after they were restituted to their original owners or their heirs.

Dec 23, 2022

Van Gogh in the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal

The Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal, published by the American Alliance of Museums, currently lists 29,874 objects from 179 participating museums. 

A search for Van Gogh returns 73 objects listed by US museums.

How many of these artworks have complete, unambiguous and accurate provenance for the years 1933-1945?


Name Of Artist Maker

Object Title

Museum Name

Accession_Num

Gogh, Vincent van

Beach at Scheveningen

Baltimore Museum of Art

1950.301

Gogh, Vincent van

A Pair of Boots

Baltimore Museum of Art

1950.302

Gogh, Vincent van

Flowers in a Vase

Baltimore Museum of Art

1950.381

Gogh, Vincent van

The Poplars at Saint-Remy

Cleveland Museum of Art

1958.32

Gogh, Vincent van

Sheaves of Wheat

Dallas Museum of Art

  1. R.80

Gogh, Vincent van

Riverbank in Springtime

Dallas Museum of Art

1961.99

Gogh, Vincent van

The Diggers

Detroit Institute of Arts

70.158

Gogh, Vincent van

Irises

J. Paul Getty Museum

90.PA.20

Gogh, Vincent van

Irises

Metropolitan Museum of Art

58.187

Gogh, Vincent van

Olive Orchard

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1998.325.1

Gogh, Vincent van

Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1984.393

Gogh, Vincent van

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

67.187.70a

Gogh, Vincent van

Self-portrait with a Straw Hat;(verso) The Potato Peeler

Metropolitan Museum of Art

67.187.70ab

Gogh, Vincent van

Shoes

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1992.374

Gogh, Vincent van

The Potato Peeler (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

67.187.70b

Gogh, Vincent van

Vase of Roses

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1993.400.5

Gogh, Vincent van

Enclosed Field with Ploughman

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1993.37

Gogh, Vincent van

Houses at Auvers

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

48.549

Gogh, Vincent van

Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

48.548

Gogh, Vincent van

Postman Joseph Roulin

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

35.1982

Gogh, Vincent van

Ravine

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

52.1524

Gogh, Vincent van

Weaver

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

58.356

Gogh, Vincent van

Portrait of Gysbertus de Groot

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

37-1

Gogh, Vincent van

Restaurant Rispal at Asnieres (Le restaurant Rispal a Asnieres)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

2015.13.10

Gogh, Vincent van

Rain

Philadelphia Museum of Art

1986-26-36

Gogh, Vincent van

Still Life with a Bouquet of Daisies

Philadelphia Museum of Art

1978-1-33

Gogh, Vincent van

Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin and Baby Marcelle

Philadelphia Museum of Art

1950-92-22

Gogh, Vincent van

The Road Menders

Phillips Collection

0799

Gogh, Vincent van

House at Auvers

Phillips Collection

0797

Gogh, Vincent van

Vineyards at Auvers

Saint Louis Art Museum

8:1953

Gogh, Vincent van

Still Life, Basket of Apples

Saint Louis Art Museum

43:1972

Gogh, Vincent van

Head of a Peasant Woman

Saint Louis Art Museum

90:2000

Gogh, Vincent van

Factories at Asnières, Seen from the Quai de Clichy

Saint Louis Art Museum

579:1958

Gogh, Vincent van

Stairway at Auvers

Saint Louis Art Museum

1:1935

Gogh, Vincent van

Orphan Man Holding a Cup

Smith College Museum of Art

SC 1984-30

Gogh, Vincent van

Orphan Man with Walking Stick

Smith College Museum of Art

SC 1996-3

Gogh, Vincent van

Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers

Toledo Museum of Art

1935.4

Gogh, Vincent van

House at Auvers

Toledo Museum of Art

1935.5

Gogh, Vincent van

The Zandemennik House

National Gallery of Art

1991.217.66

Gogh, Vincent van

The Magrot House, Cuesmes

National Gallery of Art

1991.217.65

Gogh, Vincent van

Old Man Carrying a Bucket

National Gallery of Art

1991.217.67

Gogh, Vincent van

Man Polishing a Boot

National Gallery of Art

1991.217.68

Gogh, Vincent van

Harvest--The Plain of La Crau

National Gallery of Art

1992.51.10

Gogh, Vincent van

Ploughman in the Fields near Arles

National Gallery of Art

1992.51.6

Gogh, Vincent van

Postcard with Two Peasants Digging

National Gallery of Art

1995.47.44

Gogh, Vincent van

The Harvest

National Gallery of Art

1985.64.91

Gogh, Vincent van

Green Wheat Fields, Auvers

National Gallery of Art

2013.122.1

Gogh, Vincent van

Self-Portrait

National Gallery of Art

1998.74.5

Gogh, Vincent van

Flower Beds in Holland

National Gallery of Art

1983.1.21

Gogh, Vincent van

Farmhouse in Provence

National Gallery of Art

1970.17.34

Gogh, Vincent van

Landscape

National Gallery of Art

1969.14.1

Gogh, Vincent van

Girl in White

National Gallery of Art

1963.10.30