Showing posts with label Arthur Brand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur Brand. Show all posts
May 11, 2026

The Power of Disclosure: One Family Reckons with Its Wartime Past as Goudstikker's Portrait of a Young Girl by Dutch artist Toon Kelder is Relinquished

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Dutch crime journalist John van den Heuvel, long known in the Netherlands for his reporting on organised crime and high-profile criminal inv...

Inherited Silence: Another Nazi Looted Painting "Portrait of a Young Girl,” by Dutch artist Toon Kelder Found in Private Hands.

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Identified Goudstikker portrait and a photo of a volunteer of the Dutch SS taking an oath in the presence of an officer. In the background, ...
April 1, 2025

The Life and Death of Antiquities Trafficker Leonardo Patterson: A Dealer in Stolen History

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1992 photo of Leonardo Patterson with Pope John Paul II  This morning Arthur Brand posted that Leonardo Augustus Patterson, euphemistically ...
June 18, 2020

Survival selfie of Vincent Van Gogh's artnapped painting "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen."

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Art loss detective Arthur Brand has provided two photos, of the front and verso, of the artnapped Vincent Van Gogh painting "The P...
January 17, 2020

Recovered: Divān Manuscript containing the poetry collection of Hafez - the 14th century Persian poet of Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran

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“Ever since happiness heard your name,  it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” -- Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad...
November 17, 2019

Recovered: Ring once owned by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

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Note:  This article has been revised to include an interview with Arthur Brand at the closure of this article:  Engraved with Greek le...
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March 26, 2019

Recovered: Picasso portrait of Dora Maar

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After negotiations that stretched from the UK, to the Netherlands and beyond, a Pablo Picasso portrait of photographer Dora Maar, stolen...
July 28, 2016

Dali's 1941 Surrealist work "Adolescence" and Lempicka's 1929 tableau "La Musicienne" Recovered: Tied to Organized Crime

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After negotiations that stretched from the UK, to the Netherlands and beyond two paintings stolen by masked gunmen during a daylight robber...
June 2, 2015

Arthur Brand’s Art Investigation Uncovers Nazi Art Hoard — A treasure of propaganda

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Two bronze horses recovered in Germany by Catherine Schofield Sezgin,    ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Dutch Art Investigator Arthur...
May 15, 2014

Dutch media reports that Gutmann family porcelain auctioned in 1934 ended up in museums in The Netherlands

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Dutch art investigator Arthur Brand sent me a link to an article posted in E...
December 3, 2013

Persian chalice authentic or fake? Dutch Art Investigator Arthur Brand has no doubts

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Dutch art investigator Arthur Brand is of the opinion that the chalice "that helped make possible the Iran nuclear deal, as reported ...