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Bührle Foundation’s provenance research is inadequate, report finds

The Art Newspaper

The report by Raphael Gross calls for more research and details how Jewish owners are omitted from the published provenance

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V&A provenance expert heads to Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Newspaper

Jacques Schuhmacher, who worked on several key restitution cases at the London museum, has taken up the role of executive director of provenance research

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From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance

The Art Newspaper

The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market

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Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest

The Art Newspaper

New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artists famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds

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Three looted objects from ancient Egyptian graves returned by the Netherlands

The Art Newspaper

The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections

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Could this Van Gogh have come from Nazi Germany?

The Art Newspaper

As Birminghams peasant woman painting goes on loan to Charleston, we explore the question of its provenance

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Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum

The Art Newspaper

The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”