The repatriations show policy continuity despite the new right-wing government, experts say

The new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is intended to resolve a decades-long restitution claim in a California family’s favour

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

"Over Vitebsk" by Marc Chagall hung at the Museum of Modern Art for decades until 2020, when it was restituted to the the heirs of a Jewish-owned art gallery in 1930s Berlin

The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

The Kurdish artist delves into the histories of looted artefacts and questions the ethics of their existence in Western museums

‘If an artwork is located in the US, its fate cannot be decided in any other state, and any wrong decisions cannot be corrected elsewhere’

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”

The former antiquities minister is also demanding that three Egyptian treasures, including the Rosetta Stone, be sent to his home country

The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has defended its decision to hand back two objects to the Oba rather than the government

Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items

Complexities of restitution, the relevance of the universal museum and burgeoning collections were all on the event's agenda

The work, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s today, was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold, shortly before the Nazi invasion, by the Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz

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

Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says

The oil sketch “Saint Gregory of Nazianzus” (1621) is one of five works by the Old Master that were unlawfully taken from the Friedenstein Foundation, with two still missing

Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand

Last spring Pope Francis said “this is going on, with Canada”, but since there has been little movement on repatriation

Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus

As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples

After almost two years, the case has been dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction, so the work will remain at the Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo

The work, showing two of Kirchner’s fellow artists playing chess, was sold under duress by the Berlin dealer Victor Wallerstein after he fled to Italy from Nazi Germany

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"

The 114-year-old iron sculpture of a steam locomotive was stolen from the roof of a train station in 1983

Heirs of multiple Holocaust victims have made claims to the drawing, which a member of the Lehman Brothers banking dynasty bought as a gift for his son

The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon

“Victorious Youth”, which was found off the Adriatic coast by Italian fishermen in 1964, has been the subject of an international legal feud for decades