Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
November 7, 2024

From Gallery to 'Washing Machine': How One Art Dealer’s Love for Banksy Served as Cover for an International Drug Ring

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On 11 May 2022, officers involved in the Eurojust 'Arkan' operation, assisting in the investigation begun by the District Anti-Mafia...
May 23, 2024

4th Francis Bacon painting stolen in Madrid is recovered by Spanish Police

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Today, the Spanish authorities announced that the fourth of five stolen paintings, by the artist Francis Bacon has been recovered by the Pol...
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April 19, 2024

Spain's antiquities dealer arrest and the importance of facts-based reporting

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TEFAF Maastricht 2022 Image Credit: ARCA Earlier this week, ARCA published an article building on an announcement made by  Spain's Minis...
April 15, 2024

Arrest made in Spain on Egyptian antiquities smuggling case.

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TEFAF Maastricht 2020 Image Credit: ARCA According to Spain's Ministry of the Interior, following an investigation begun in 2023, the P...
March 11, 2024

The wacky illicit world of one Ushabti of the Pharaoh Taharqa

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The Cultural Heritage Brigade of Spain's Policía Nacional have completed an investigation into a rare, illicitly trafficked, ushabti. Th...
March 4, 2024

New developments in Spain's theft case of five artworks by Francis Bacon

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  In the summer of 2015 thieves entered a five-story building on the Plaza de la Encarnación —an affluent area in the center of Madrid near ...
January 21, 2024

Spanish Police Recover 71 Historical Artefacts and Arrest 6 of 10 members of an Art Trafficking Ring

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This week the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on an important victory by the Brigada de Patrimonio Histórico de la Policía Judicial in th...
November 27, 2023

Marking the return of 12 pieces to Libya recovered from Spanish gallerist Jaume Bagot of J. Bagot Arqueología

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Image Credit: Archaeology IN - Libya Following the order of the Central Court of Investigation number 6 of Madrid on 24 November 2023, it wa...
November 16, 2023

The Ephebes of Pedro Abad are on exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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After a complex period of study and years of delicate restoration to repair their fragile bodies, the Ephebes of Pedro Abad went on display ...