Jun 24, 2022

Henri Matisse The Blue Window

Henri Matisse
The Blue Window
Issy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Credit
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number
273.1939
 https://web.archive.org/web/20150805185104/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79350


EK no. 3688: Stillleben, blaues Zimmer. One of 139 paintings removed from the Folkwang Essen in July and August 1937 (exh. cat. Folkwang 2010, p. 348). [4] Included in the exhibition Art in Our Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10- September 30, 1939 (no. 93).

Jun 21, 2022

Franz Marc Foxes Kurt and Else Grawi vs. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf Recommendation decided on February 10, 2021

Franz Marc, The Foxes (1913) Wikimedia Commons

 Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property Office: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 Berlin

Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of the heirs of Kurt and Else Grawi vs. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf

May 24, 2022

Walter Bareiss in provenances of European artworks in American museums

 

The Bend in the Road by Cézanne, Exhibited at the Bignou Gallery in New York in 1940*

Walter Bareiss was, along with Baron Leon Lambert, Eugene Victor Thaw, David Carritt, Count Christian zu Salm-Reifferscheidt, Philippe R. Stoclet, Count Artur Strachwitz, Heinz Berggruen and Baron Alexis de Rede,  on the board of the art trading syndicate Artemis S.A.  

(Artist and social critic Hans Haacke included information about Artemis S.A. and its board members in his installation work. See Framing and Begin Unframed page 108 to 112)


In this series of posts, we look at artworks owned by members of the Artemis syndicate.

May 20, 2022

Tooth in Provenance: UK Collections Trust Spoliation Reports and Getty Public Collections

The name "Authur Tooth" appears frequently in provenances with gaps for the Nazi era. 

This post lists the search results for "Tooth" in the UK Spoliation Reports published by the Collections Trust