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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · 20h

How to get away with murder, or, how to dodge an indictment for crimes against humanity and die peacefully in bed? The case of Augusto Pinochet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

How to Get Away With Crimes Against Humanity

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · 3d

Could this be a State-sanctioned Europe-wide theft (illicit repatriation) of rare books from the Russian literary canon for the benefit of Mother Russia? Anything is possible. All circumstantial signs point in that direction.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · 9d

What about the 22 paintings by Henri Matisse? Who do they belong to?
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Argentine Couple Charged With Hiding Stolen Art, Including Works by Matisse

The couple had been put under house arrest after an 18th-century portrait was spotted in a real estate listing.

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · 22d

History repeats itself like a snake biting its tail.
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“Forgotten” History – Arbeitskreis Regionalgeschichte

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · 24d

On 24 September 2025, IMEC in Caen (France) is offering a fascinating presentation on three Jewish women in the summer of 1942 facing the Holocaust and their own demise.
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« Trois femmes face à la catastrophe, été 1942 » par Judith Lyon-Caen

Trois femmes, face à la catastrophe. Eté 1942. Ces trois femmes, ce sont Rachel Auerbach, Hélène Berr et Irène Nemirovsky. La première est à Varsovie, dans le ghetto, à la veille de la Grande déportat...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Sep 10

10 September 2025: Antiquities dug up at Teotihuacan, Mexico, on offer at Alexander Historical Auctions. Purportedly from the 1940s but the labels are dubious, pointing to loot.
www.alexautographs.com/auction-cata...

Catalog - Special End of Summer Live Auction 2025

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Sep 10

10 September 2025: Alexander Historical Auctions, Elkton, MD, is selling a "desecrated" fragment from a Torah scroll, in violation of Jewish tenets for handling such objects. No surprises coming from a business that specializes in Nazi and Fascist memorabilia.
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Lot - DESECRATED TORAH SEGMENT

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Aug 17

What does restitution mean to the Tamaya people in New Mexico?
"For pueblo people, a sacred item is like another person — living, breathing and intertwined with their identity."
www.seattlepi.com/news/article...

Investigators search for Native American items stolen decades ago in New Mexico

Investigators with a Native American community in New Mexico are trying to crack a cold case, one irreplaceable item at a time. It's been 40 years since federal authorities busted a ring of thieves...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Aug 8

During the German occupation of France, the cultural sphere was completely purged of its Jewish artists and of anything that smacked of abstract modernism, art with political and social themes. A curator, Yves Bouzardel, intimated that it was "la revanche du goût." Good taste prevailed. Whose taste?

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 31

While there seems nowadays to be a genuine rediscovery of Dora Maar as artist, friend of artists, photographer, muse, an unsettling detail has emerged in an article by Brigitte Benkemoum for Gagosian. Dora Maar owned a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf and hated Jews.
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Discovering Dora Maar | Gagosian Quarterly

Brigitte Benkemoun’s book Je suis le carnet de Dora Maar takes a novel approach to the art of biography. For the Quarterly, Benkemoun recounts her discovery of a mysterious Hermès address book, the .....

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 31

A Bonnard painting on offer in Sydney, Australia for close to 1 million Australian Dollars. This painting reminds us that you could acquire legitimate works of art on the Paris art market between 1940-1945 that were not tainted by theft and plunder.
www.menziesartbrands.com/items/22384?...

Bouquet de Cheminée (also known as Fleurs sur une Cheminée)

Menzies Fine Art Auctioneers and Art Valuers - Specialising in important Australian and International fine paintings and sculpture.

www.menziesartbrands.com

plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Is cultural heritage destruction a human rights violation? One author explores this proposition in great detail, emphasizing the role of mass media in (de)sensitizing the public about the destruction of culture worldwide.
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Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation

The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Maria Ender

Maria Vladimirovna Ender (1897 – 1942) was a leading Russian artist, whose color theory experiments were innovative for modern art and public life in the early Soviet republic. Ender examined color no...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Russian painter Maria Ender died in Leningrad in 1942. A 1939 work is up for sale at Bonham's. For someone who never left Mother Russia, how did this 1939 painting end up at Raydon Gallery in NYC? Perhaps because it was exhibited at the NY World's Fair of 1939.
www.bonhams.com/auction/3081...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 24

This charming painting by Jewish artist Chaim Soutine was likely painted later (not in c. 1937), but as late as 1942. Most Soutine paintings are systematically misdated to this day. It is especially important to know which paintings Soutine produced while in hiding in German-occupied France.

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · Jul 24

Portrait of a Child https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/portrait-of-a-child

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pompeii obtains restitution of an "erotic mosaic" lifted from the archaeological site by a Nazi officer during WWII in Italy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Erotic mosaic stolen by Nazi captain in second world war returned to Pompeii

Wehrmacht officer gave relic to German citizen whose family contacted Italian heritage officials after his death

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 14

How does quintessentially Eastern European Jewish artist Chaim Soutine get to share his fundamentally Jewish heritage with a gigantic Catholic cross? He is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris (France).

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 5

What happens when a work of art is acquired in Paris during WWII and crosses the German border only to be repatriated by the French after 1945?
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Restitution and ‘restitution’: Some thoughts on the MNR problem in France

by Marc Masurovsky edited and updated on 5 July 2025 Restitution involves the act of returning a stolen object to the owner who was the vict...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 5

an experimental look at Nazi looted art and other plundered objects, a bit dated, a bit strident, viewed from the perspective of claimants who are leery of current possessors' intentions regarding what they view as their rightful possession. Work in progress.
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Vimeo

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 5

An updated look at what is known as "just and fair solutions" when resolving Nazi looted art restitution cases. More often than not, they lead to financial compensation schemes.
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When is “just and fair” fair and just?

by Marc Masurovsky (updated on 5 July 2025) It is difficult to pin down precisely the genesis of the concept known as “fair and just” or “...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 5

An updated commentary on Washington Principle #8 issued in December 1998 at the end of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-era Assets. This article was originally drafted and released on 4 November 2018 before the 20th anniversary of the Principles.
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Washington Principle #8: A Critique

by Marc Masurovsky [Editor's note: Due to the momentous nature of the upcoming international conference to be held in Berlin, Germany, on ...

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 5

By all appearances, if one reviews the past 25 years of Holocaust-era restitutions of looted, displaced, misappropriated, confiscated art, one would think that there were only two artists from Austria: Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. How is that possible?
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KRI - Schiele Raisonné

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 2

Despite the heat, we are honored to have Sanjay Adhikari in this year's iteration of the provenance research workshop offered by the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) and the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) in Amelia, Umbria, Italy. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Our god was locked in a US museum’: the heritage hunters bringing home Nepal’s lost treasures

Thousands of ancient artefacts have been taken out of the country. These Nepalese citizens are determined to get them back

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 1

American history once again is privatized on the auction bloc.
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Kenneth Griffin Acquires More Record-Breaking Historical Documents

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation.

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jul 1

A Braque painting, once the property of Alphonse Kann, plundered outside Paris by a special Nazi task force (ERR) in fall of 1940, restituted shortly after the end of WWII, is up for sale at Sotheby's.
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

Verre et compotier | Modern Day Auction | 2025 | Sotheby's

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, JapanGeorges Braque1882 - 1963 Verre et compotiersigned G. BRAQUE (on the reverse)oi...

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