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Harvard researchers are tracing the ownership of all museum artwork that may have been in Europe between 1933 and 1945. The artwork in question includes more than 500 paintings, 3,100 drawings and 120 modern art objects in the Fogg Art Museum and 750 objects in the Busch-Reisinger Museum...
...collections has a file recording all of its known owners, every collection in which the piece has been featured, scholarly commentary and a copy of every article and book in which the piece has appeared. Thorough provenance research requires examination of sales records and auctions, exhibition history and the artwork itself, according to Kianovsky...
Kianovsky says she began to suspect the authenticity of one painting after noticing a label that resembled the markings of the Kohner collection, a Budapest dealer who sold illegally obtained artwork. Many of Kianovsky’s colleagues at other museums had noticed similar labels in their collections...
...last decade has seen increased public awareness about the return of stolen artwork in museum collections...
...Boston Globe ran a series of articles suggesting that major American art museums—including Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)—held artwork illegally seized by the Nazis, and the MFA has subsequently given back several pieces from their collection...