When wildlife agents infiltrated the home of a small-town Alaska couple suspected of dealing illegal animal parts, they didn’t expect to find fine art among the couple’s loot. But amid the machine guns and illegal ivory, the pot and coca plants, sat five pricey Victorian paintings pilfered from a New England woman’s home in 2005.
MONTREAL — Two archaeological pieces worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A Persian bas-relief and a marble head dating from the Roman Empire were taken from the Mediterranean archeological exhibit room on the first floor of the Hornstein Pavilion during opening hours around Oct. 26,
A square medieval silver coin, minted as emergency currency by Viennese officials as Ottoman Empire troops laid siege to the city in 1529 – during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I – was among the valuable pieces of vintage money stolen from a Colorado museum in 2007. Last week an alleged Martinez man
France has laid claim to a 17th Century painting currently being displayed by a London gallery at an art fair in Paris. The Carrying of the Cross by the French master Nicolas Tournier was bought last year for 400,000 euros ($550,000) by the Weiss Gallery of London. But the French government says it is stolen
Taxpayers will face a staggering £1.5 billion bill if the nine Leonardo da Vinci paintings on display in the National Gallery this week are damaged or stolen, it emerged today. The Gallery in London has had to nearly double its total indemnity to £3.3 billion with extra insurance from the Government should anything go wrong.
U.S. authorities are set to return the painting “A Fisherman’s Daughter / Mending the Nets” by noted French realist Jules Breton to the city of Douai, France, on Thursday. In a ceremony at the French Embassy in Washington, the painting, which was stolen from Douai’s Chartreuse Museum by a German soldier in 1918, will be
Police in Athens, Greece have just recovered a valuable 17th century painting, stolen ten years ago from a museum in Europe. They’ve arrested two people. Trafficking in fine art and other antiquities has emerged as the third most lucrative criminal activity in the world behind only drugs and guns. “It’s a $6 billion industry,” according
It’s like a story out of a mystery novel. R. Scott Cook, the owner of the now-defunct Cook Fine Art gallery, is being sued by one of his clients, George Ball, according to the Courthouse News Service. Ball filed the lawsuit against Cook for allegedly stealing the proceeds of nine works of art that Cook
The Museum of Fine Arts has agreed to pay restitution to the heir of a Jewish art dealer killed at Auschwitz after determining that a 17th-century Dutch painting in its collection was once owned by him and was probably plundered by the Nazis. With the deal, which culminates a more than decade-long investigation by the
Re-posted from Art Market Monitor: A few weeks ago, we noticed how the Art Loss Register kept popping up in a variety of fraud, theft and restitution cases. That prompted us to ask Chris Marinello, General Counsel of the Art Loss Register here in New York to sit down with us and walk through the basics.
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