Contextual Information for Nazi-era Provenance Research - Wikidata Sparql Query

Holocaust victim, art looting Red Flag name, Nazi party member, or persecuted person?

Art historians, provenance researchers, museum curators, scholars of the Holocaust and the art market,

If you would like to know whether a person in a provenance is a Holocaust victim, a looting Red Flag name, a Nazi party member, or a persecuted person, here is a Sparql query in Wikidata that can help:

https://w.wiki/7gg3

                                                       (collectors, dealers)

Clicking on the link above runs a Wikidata Sparql query.

The link below is more complete but runs slower...

https://w.wiki/8rbj
(collectors, dealers, curators, art historians)

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

Lady with a Fan, Lady with a False Provenance

 

Why did the National Gallery of Victoria originally list a "Dr. Grunden of Hamburg" in the provenance of this 17th century painting by Gerard ter Borch, Lady with a Fan? 

When Max Emden's grandson, Juan Carlos Emden, found, in Australia, the painting that had belonged to his family before Hitler came to power, he knew the provenance was wrong.

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?

Photo	Short Title	Date	AccNum	Credit Line	Provenance
	Pedestal Table (Translation)	1922	47.10.80	T. Catesby Jones Collection	NO PROVENANCE
	The Banjo Player (Primary Title)	1921	47.10.81	T. Catesby Jones Collection	NO PROVENANCE
	The Horse (Primary Title)	1901	85.795	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon	NO PROVENANCE
	Head of a Peasant Woman (Former Title)	1906	47.10.78	T. Catesby Jones Collection	NO PROVENANCE
	Still Life (Wineglass and Newspaper) (Primary Title)	ca. 1913–4	47.10.83	T. Catesby Jones Collection	NO PROVENANCE
	Fool on Horseback (Former Title)	1905	84.2	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon	NO PROVENANCE
	Landscape (Translation)	1907	47.10.79	T. Catesby Jones Collection	NO PROVENANCE

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