Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”
The painting was pulled from a sale in June following reports it was sold under duress in 1936 by Walter Blank, who died in Spain while fleeing Nazi Germany
Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction
"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations
View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt
Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s
Heirs of the dealers who sold the collection of medieval artefacts to the Prussian government claim their case can be heard in US court because the dealers were not German citizens at the time of the sale
Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month
Recent legislation requires institutions to label works they display that was stolen by the Nazis, but some are still unwilling to publish their provenance research
The forest landscape, La Ronde Enfantine, will be returned by the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, to the heirs of Robert Bing
The works were owned by influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard and will be returned to his heirs
Findings about the provenance of two Old Master drawings in the museum’s collection may test the pro-restitution stance recently adopted at US national institutions
Mayor of Amiens in France asks pop star to loan work believed to be by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, spotted in a photograph of her home
The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March
As the panel was looted in Paris, the magistrates claimed jurisdiction of the French courts over the High Court in London
Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers
We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum
The heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler claim “Woman Ironing (La repasseuse)” (1904) was sold under duress by the fleeing couple and are seeking its return—or as much as $200m in compensation
Plus, Singapore’s art hub ambitions and Grace Lau's project for Chinese New Year
Bought for a Japanese museum in 1987, the masterpiece has just been claimed by the heirs of a Jewish Berlin banker
The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it
The banker's heirs claim that the current owner, which bought "Sunflowers" for a then-record $39.9m at Christie's in 1987, ignored the painting's provenance issues
The new state regulation, signed into law by Governor Hochul, requires museums to install placards or other signage alongside works on view that were looted by the Nazis during the Second World War
These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away
Now in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, a restitution claim for the work has been submitted to the Spoliation Advisory Panel
The Supreme Court's unanimous decision, written by Justice Elena Kagan, revolved around the question of which jurisdiction’s law to apply in cases where a foreign government is sued in US court
The case of the Birds' Head Haggadah is the first time a museum in Israel has faced a restitution lawsuit for an object allegedly lost in the Holocaust
The mass restitution is expected to be endorsed by the French Senate on 15 February
Ice Skating by Adam van Breen was acquired by Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, and bequeathed to the city of Trier’s museum in 1987