I was proud to advise the Allentown Art Museum, which announced today that it has reached an agreement with the heirs of Henry and Hertha Bromberg concerning Portrait of George, Duke of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop. Pursuant to the agreement, the painting will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York next year following educational programming focusing on the painting’s history. The Museum’s press release can be read here. The story was also addressed in an excellent article in The New York Times by Graham Bowley.
(Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony, by Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop)
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Topics:
Graham Bowley,
Paris,
Washington Conference Principles,
Christie's,
Hamburg,
Lucas Cranach the Elder,
The New York Times,
Nazi-confiscated art,
Henry Bromberg,
Hertha Bromberg,
Martin Bromberg,
Max Weintraub,
Reichsfluchtsteuer,
Allen Loebl,
F. Kleinberger Gallery,
property inventory,
Allentown Art Museum,
Portrait of George the Bearded Duke of Saxony,
Porträt des Georg dem Bärtigen Herzog von Sachsen,
Vermögensverzeichnis,
Wildenstein
The Responsible Art Market Initiative will hold its annual conference next week in Geneva on January 25, 2024 (Thursday) at the art fair artgenève. RAM, which has increasingly been recognized as an industry leader in best practices in the art market, will present a keynote speaker and two discussion panels (one of which I will chair). The program and registration are available here.
After introductory remarks by Anne Laure Bandle of Borel & Barbey, Anthony Meyer of Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art in Paris will deliver the keynote address.
Next, I will moderate a panel of experts to discuss the current antiquities market. We will present and analyze some updated guidance to the RAM Due Diligence toolkit to address the antiquities market specifically.
The final panel of the day will discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and at. Few topics are as salient today as AI.
RAM’s events are always a unique opportunity to gather with art market participants from many sectors of the market. I look forward to seeing you in Geneva!
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Topics:
Anne Laure Bandle,
Maastricht,
TEFAF,
Paris,
Geneva,
Mathilde Heaton,
Jean-Bernard Schmid,
Responsible Art Market initiative,
Borel & Barbey,
Phillips Auctioneers,
Lausanne,
artgenève,
Anthony Meyer,
Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art,
Will Korner,
Isabelle Tassignon,
Fondation Gandur pour l’Art,
Eric Drass,
shardcore,
Nicolas Henchoz,
EPFL+ECAL Lab,
Alexandre Jotterand
I am speaking at a conference on March 23-24, 2017 at the University of Cambridge (UK) entitled “From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective.” My presentation will address the various national panels created in response to the Washington Conference by European countries to address claims for Nazi-looted art in state collections. The roster of speakers is impressive (present company excluded), and it promises to be a fascinating two days. The program is available here, and the conference website is here.
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Wiesbaden,
London,
Holocaust Art Restitution Project,
Paris,
Art Recovery Group,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Emily Löffler,
Pierre Valentin,
Events,
Johannes Nathan,
Karlsruhe,
Marc Masurovsky,
Sotheby's,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Emmanuelle Polack,
Leopold Museum,
Frankfurt,
Jewish Claims Conference,
Victoria Louise Steinwachs,
Debbie De Girolamo,
Tabitha I. Oost,
Bianca Gaudenzi,
Jewish Museum Prague,
Robert Holzbauer,
Tessa Rosebrock,
Staatliche Kunsthalle,
Laurel Zuckerman,
Shlomit Steinberg,
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer,
Maike Brueggen,
Nathalie Neumann,
Simone Gigliotti,
Royal Holloway University of London,
Anne O. Popham,
Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig,
Isabel von Klitzing,
Landesmuseum Mainz,
Michaela Sidenberg,
Mary Kate Cleary,
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art,
Fluchtgut,
Diana Kostyrko,
Elizabeth Campbell,
University of Denver,
Evelien Campfens,
Leiden University,
Angelina Giovani,
Jennifer Gramer,
Agata Wolska,
Nathan Fine Art GmbH,
Potsdam,
Friederike Schwelle,
Art Loss Register,
Provenance Research & Art Consulting
I am looking forward to participating next month in a symposium entitled :"Ethics and Cultural Patrimony: Viewpoints" at L'Ecole du Louvre in Paris on October 20-21, 2015. The event is organized by L’Institut Droit Ethique Patrimoine (Institute of Law, Ethics and Heritage), in partnership with l’Institut d’Etudes de droit public (Institute of Public Law Studies) and l’Ecole du Louvre, and take place at the Ecole du Louvre, Palais du Louvre, porte Jaujard, place du Carrousel, 75001 Paris. The conference website (with registration) can be found here, and the brochure can be opened here.
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Topics:
Bordeaux University Montaigne,
cultural property,
Lafferière-François Julien,
Denis Michel Boëll,
Ecole du Louvre,
National Consultative Ethics Committee,
Deaccession,
Schwabinger Kunstfund,
Marie Cornu,
James Bradburne,
Geraldine Goffaux Callebau,
Musée de la Marine,
Council of Voluntary Sales,
Tehran,
Astrid Müller-Katzenberg,
Baptiste Brown,
Conservation,
ICOM,
Marie Berducou,
Stéphane Duroy,
University of Toulouse Capitole,
National Heritage Institute,
Michel Van Praët,
University of Shahid Beheshti,
Paris,
Philippe Durey,
Arnaud Beaufort,
University of Poitiers,
University Western Bretagne,
Nathalie Heinich,
Milan,
Julien Chapuis,
Pinacoteca di Brera,
French National Commission for UNESCO,
Philippe-Henri Dutheil,
University Rennes,
Vincent Negri,
Durey Philippe,
Céline Castets- Fox,
Gurlitt,
Restitution,
Sophie Vigneron,
Bittoun Jacques,
Sullivan & Worcester LLP,
Events,
University Institute of France,
University of Kent,
Museum for Byzantine Sculpture Collections and Art,
National Library of France,
Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of,
Noëlle Timbart,
Chadelat Catherine,
Dominique Jarrassé,
Claire Barbillon,
Janicot Daniel,
Gilles Ragot,
University of Montreal,
State Museums in Berlin,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
International Society For Law Research of Cultural,
Edouard Planche,
Emmanuelle Polack,
Fromageau Jérôme,
Université Paris Sud,
EY Société d’avocats,
Gautrais Vincent,
Janet Blake
The Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Committee of the International Bar Association (of which I am a member) will be sponsoring an event March 26-27, 2015 at Sotheby’s in London. The IBA Individual Tax and Private Client Committee is also a co-sponsor, in connection with the IBA European Regional Forum. Sotheby’s is located at 34-35 New Bond Street in London.
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Topics:
Karen Sanig,
Daniel Simon Collyer Bristow,
Helly Nahmed Gallery,
The Princely Collections,
Lucian Simmons Steven Thomas,
Art Finance,
Mary Romano,
Rina Pantalony,
Philip Hoffman,
International Julius Baer,
Luke Dugdale,
Helly Nahmad,
UGGC Avocats,
Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati,
Mark Cornell,
UK Government Art Collection,
ICOM,
Daniel Tunkel Howard Kennedy,
Peter Polak,
David Arendt,
Adrian Parkhouse,
Diana Wierbicki,
Paris,
Guy Simonius,
Bloomberg,
Johann Kräftner,
Art Cultural Institutions and Heritage Committee o,
Columbia University,
Geneva; Wendy Philips,
Herrick,
ARIS Title,
Melanie Gerlis The Art Newspaper,
Jasper Sharp,
Sandrine Giroud,
Cadell & Co,
Scotland Yard,
Lalive,
Jean-Francois Canat,
Houston Francesca von Habsburg,
1858 Ltd Art Advisory,
Viola Reikhel-Bolot,
UCLA School of Law,
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
Stephen D Brodie,
Fine Art Wealth Management,
The Fine Art Fund Group,
Marlborough Contemporary,
Los Angeles,
Randall Willette,
Events,
Massimo Sterpi,
Luxembourg,
Sherri North Cohen,
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions,
Le Freeport,
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
LIECHTENSTEIN,
Adrian George,
Fabrizio Moretti,
Alfredo Perez,
Mishcon de Reya¸ George Bailey,
TEFAF Maastricht,
Mark Stephens,
Dick Ellis,
IBA Individual Tax and Private Client Committee,
Goldsmiths London University,
Andrew Renton,
Withers,
Sotheby's,
Legal Issues in Museum Administration,
Vaduz,
Zürich,
IBA,
Vienna,
Pure Love of Art versus Mere Investment,
New York
