Showing posts with label Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Show all posts
January 20, 2019

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Stolen 80 years ago , a section of an Achaemenid-era (550-330 BC) bas-relief, once part of a long line of rock-carved soldiers displaye...
July 25, 2018

New York Supreme Court judge orders plundered bas-relief from the city of Persepolis must be returned to Iran

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A New York Supreme Court judge has ordered the plundered bas-relief from the city of Persepolis, which dates from the 5th Century B.C.E.,...
October 9, 2016

A Persian soldier from Persepolis loses his second home

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In February 2014 ARCA wrote about a sandstone bas-relief panel then-titled, "Head of a Guard" stolen in September 2011 from the ...
September 4, 2014

Canada's Largest Art Theft: The 42nd anniversary of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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Gustave Courbet, French, 1819-77 Landscape with rocks and stream , 1873 Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 x 36 1/8 inches Lady Allan Bequest, 1958...
February 14, 2014

Simon Metke and His Ongoing Relationship with "Protecting" Cultural Heritage

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Journalists Cailynn Klingbeil and Jana G. Pruden from the Edmonton Journal have published an article where they have interviewed the 33 ...
February 13, 2014

AXA Art Insurance, the Sûreté du Québec, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Announce the recovery of a rare and valuable Achaemenid Bas-Relief Stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2011

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Sandstone, Head of a Guard photo by @DomenicFazioli At a press conference today in Montreal, the Sûreté du Québec - ...
January 18, 2014

Unsolved Museum Thefts: The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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PARIS - My visit to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris yesterday reminded me of another museum with not one but two unsolved...
September 4, 2013

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Theft: After more than four decades the paintings are still missing and the thieves remain unidentified

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School of Jan Breughel the Elder Landscape with vehicles and cattle , about 1620-80 (Recovered in 1972) Oil on copper, 7 ½ x 10 ½ inche...
October 26, 2012

Theft Anniversary: Two artifacts (Assyrian and Roman) stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Art last year

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Last year on October 26, someone stole two ancient sculptures from the Montreal Museum of Fine A...
September 5, 2012

40th anniversary of Canada's biggest art theft quietly passes

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This painting by Rembrandt was stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts  in 1972 and remains missing.  by Catherine Schofield Se...
August 31, 2012

Approaching 40th anniversary of Canada's largest art theft: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September 4, 1972

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Forty years ago, someone was plotting the largest art theft in Canadian histo...
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June 15, 2012

Reviewing two stolen Corot paintings and updating the catalogue raisonné of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Corot's "The Dreamer"/MMFA by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Theft and authenticity intertw...