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30
May
A new and not very subtle weapon is helping art collectors in the battle against forgers: the Bomb.
Russian scientists believe that nuclear test explosions and the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 released elements into the atmosphere that can be detected in oil paintings made after…
Read Ben Hoyle’s article in The Telegraph
Tags: Paintings, Theft
2
May
A former public school art teacher duped auction houses into selling fake antique pots he made in his shed.
He made dozens of bowls and vases that he stamped with his own version of the potters’ seal to make them appear genuine. He then convinced auctioneers, including Christie’s and Bonhams, to offer them for sale.
Bonhams unwittingly [...]
24
Apr
An enormous porcelain centerpiece that was among the top presale lots in Sotheby’s Russian art sales last week is now at the center of a legal dispute, in which a Great Neck man claims that the dealer who put the piece up for auction stole it from his home and then told him he would [...]
14
Mar
March 14 (Bloomberg) — The latest story of looted art involves the Stasi, not the Nazis, a painting of Hercules and an informant who befriended the owner in Berlin.
“Hercules and Achelous” by the Dutch painter Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem…
Read full story by Linda Sandler at Bloomberg
Tags: Theft
7
Mar
ON A QUIET SUNDAY AFTERNOON last month, armed men broke into the Emil George Bührle Museum in Zurich and forced security staff to the floor at gunpoint. A few minutes later, they had made off with paintings by Cezanne, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh with a combined value of £90 million…
Read full story by Susan [...]
7
Mar
The International Herald Tribune has this story about another museum painting theft, which has since been recovered by authorities:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Police have recovered a stolen painting by Swedish writer and painter August Strindberg, and arrested two men suspected of theft, police and museum officials said Friday….
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Tags: Theft