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 In searching the new Getty Provenance Index, it can be useful to know the "preferred name" as recorded in ULAN, especially when p...

The new Getty Provenance Index can be confusing to use. Here are some t ips for advanced search and download on the new GPI https://www.yout...

Frederick Mont, AKA Fritz Mondschein or Galerie Sanct Lucas, is a name that has popped up in Nazi looted art and in forgeries, and, for this...

Antoine Seilern and the Princess Gates Bequest appear in many provenances. This post gathers together information from the RKD and the UK Co...

The RKD is an important source of art provenance information. The RKD cuts across data silos to bring together provenance and other informa...

 The Moos art dealing dynasty has placed an important role. This post focuses on artworks that passed through Moos and Christie's.

  The following is adapted from a "conversation" with Google's AI tool, NotebookLM based on sources uploaded.

Description*:  Researching a Rigged Game: Open Source Data & the Trade of Cultural Objects, September 14 and 15, 2023. This YouTube vid...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced yesterday that it plans to restitute to Nepal one of the objects looted from it. The looted object,  ...

Restitutions Overview of the Restitutions by the Bavarian State Painting Collections https://www.pinakothek.de/de/museum/forschung/provenien...

The following names are linked to Holocaust art and restitution cases stemming from the persecution of Jews in the Nazi era. Their presence ...

Names extracted from the provenance texts of artworks in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago who were created by artists whom the...

Pinpoint is a tool for investigative journalists. It performs automatic entity extraction from PDF files. Can it be useful for processing pr...

URL: https://www.openartdata.org/2024/11/the-grosz-was-acquired-from.html The German Expressionist artist George Grosz (1893–19...

"Definitely not a reliable or trustworthy source for cataloguing"  - Secret Modigliani   What does it mean to find Arthur Pfannsti...

 Starting from Probst and expanding out to see the other names that appeared together with Probst in provenances

Claims for Nazi-looted art or duress sales sometimes result in restitution or settlement agreements which cause the restituted artwork to ...

The Paul Graupe auction house was a key player in sales of Jewish art collections during the Nazi-era. In this post, we look at a selection ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons  In 2009, Sotheby's put up for sale this Renoir entitled DEUX FEMMES DANS ...

The list below contains the last names of antiquities trafficker who were investigated by the Manhattan DA, the FBI or other criminal invest...