Frederick Mont in RKD records

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 reason, a name of interest for provenance researchers and art crime specialists.

Below are artworks in the RKD data that mention "Mont, Frederick" retrieved by a Sparql query at: 

https://rkd.triply.cc/rkd/RKD-Knowledge-Graph/sparql

To see the full provenance click on the RKD link.

(Art Historians: Note the number of Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag Names that appear in the full provenances)

See also:Art Dealers in Provenance: Frederick Mont at the Toledo Museum of Art and LACMA 

and Frederick Mont or Mondschein in Provenances of the Getty Provenance Index Public Collections Database 

and Fritz Mont, Frederick Mondschein and Galerie Sanct Lucas

Frederick Mont in RDK database provenances

RKD and Collections Trust Spoliation Reports: Antoine Seilern

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

How to create a false provenance for a forgery, IKEA-style satirical instruction manual from ChatGPT

Here's a satirical IKEA-style instruction guide for assembling a false provenance for a forged artwork. It’s entirely fictional and intended to educate through humor—exposing how shady art dealings might look if they came with assembly instructions. (author: ChatGPT4o)

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🖼️ FAKEVÄRDE

False Provenance Kit – Discreetly elevate your garage painting to gallery prestige!

📦 Contents:

• 1x Faded Auction Catalogue (pre-yellowed)

• 3x Invented Collectors (with vaguely European surnames)

• 1x Retired Art Historian (missing credentials)

• 2x “Private Collection, Switzerland” Labels

• 1x Forged Gallery Sticker

• 1x Typewriter (w/ misaligned keys for “authenticity”)

• 1x Bottle of Coffee (for artificial aging)

RKD Speelman

The RKD is an important source of art provenance information. The RKD cuts across data silos to bring together provenance and other information from numerous museums. Below is a search (via Sparql query) for "Speelman", an important art dealing dynasty. Click on the urls to see the complete RKD information as well as, in certain cases, links to the current collection.

(If a link doesn't work, use the RKD ID to find the artwork. Or replace "https://data.rkd.nl/images/" with "https://research.rkd.nl/en/detail/https%3A%2F%2Fdata.rkd.nl%2Fimages%2F" or with the permalink url "https://rkd.nl/images/" )

For more on Speelman, see also posts on The Legacy of Edward Speelman and Edward Speelman and the Toledo Museum of Art and Edward Speelman in America.

Galerie Moos: tracing history through public auctions

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