NewsArt market
Legal battle over €15m Leonardo discovery: owner, Tajan auction house and French government fight it out
An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned
NewsArt market
'An opportunity for bargain hunters' or a waste of time? Italy relaxes stringent export laws for Old Masters and antiques worth less than €13,500
Lower-value older works and those by artists who died less than 50 years ago no longer need an export licence to leave the country—but the process can still be slow
NewsBritish Museums
Cash-strapped museums unable to stop treasures from leaving UK
Export licences likely to be granted on Italian roundel and German reliquary as institutions struggle with the fallout of the pandemic
NewsAcquisitions
UK fails to save painting of 'paramount importance' as Getty export licence is granted
Recently rediscovered 18th-century work by artist Joseph Wright of Derby was bought by the Los Angeles museum in March last year
NewsArt market
French government has 30 months to find funding for Cimabue kitchen painting
Culture ministry blocked export of medieval work but will the French state proceed with purchase?
NewsExport policies
UK buyer sought for £8m Gainsborough masterpiece barred from export
Pastoral landscape sold at Sotheby’s was once owned by Royal Holloway college
ArchiveTate
The Art Newspaper investigates Tate's documents on the Reynolds' Omai bid
The files included a letter from Serota himself
ArchiveArt exports
Will the V&A buy this £7 million roundel?
Export license could be extended until November
ArchiveRestitution
V&A is willing to lend its fragment to reunite it with the Sidamara Sarcophagus in Istanbul
Turkish tomb could regain long-lost head
ArchiveTate
Tate launches appeal to buy Turner's Blue Rigi
The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on
ArchiveTate
Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
ArchiveJ.M.W. Turner
Turner seller might have done better with Tate
Why was The Dark Rigi sold privately, when a public sale would have given valuable tax breaks?
ArchiveTate
How the US National Gallery and Tate were beaten to Turner masterpiece
The Dark Rigi has become embroiled in murky legal waters
ArchiveTate
Final effort for Tate to save Reynolds’ Archers
The Tate continues to fiercely pursue their fundraising campaign in the hopes that this great work may remain in the UK
ArchiveTate
Omai to go on loan to Tate
Is this a prelude to its sale to the gallery?
ArchiveTate
Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai to remain in the UK, but in private hands
The painting which was bought at Sotheby's was banned from leaving the country - now what?
ArchiveExport policies
Victoria and Albert Museum fails to secure Clive of India flask
Collector sheikh stalemates art export process
ArchiveNews
The National Gallery secures Raphael
The Getty Museum loses out on “Madonna of the pinks”
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Tate director, Nicholas Serota: Recent art is patrimony too
Serota discusses export laws and what is truly significant to public collections
ArchiveNews
The future of Raphael’s "Madonna of the pinks" still hangs in the balance
A lottery grant of £11.5 million may not be enough to keep the painting at the National Gallery
ArchiveNews
National Gallery reaches out to the underprivileged in bid to save Raphael from export
“The Madonna of the pinks” may have been painted for a nun in Perugia
ArchiveLaw
Art lover claims c1.25 million Old Master should not have left country
Private collector vs State in Spain
ArchiveAppointments & departures
Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?
Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out
ArchiveNews
Lloyd Webber pre-Raphaelite export exhortation
The 300 paintings and drawings include works by Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Burne-Jones
ArchiveCollectors
A famous collector sells up: punitive Spanish export laws induce me to sell, says Jaime Ortiz-Patiño
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
ArchiveAntiquities & Archaeology
Only a legal antiquities market can curb the illegal market which destroys world history
Change needed in the face of a growing market
ArchiveRestitution
European Parliament approves the Directive on the Restitution of Cultural Goods
There are concerns however about how effective or restrictive this regulation will be