Glasgow museums admitted that a £3million sculpture by the eminent French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) has been missing for nearly 75 years. Comité Rodin in Paris described the loss as “utterly shameful“, after museum staff were unable to locate the sculpture.
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Over the last month, three paintings by the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) have been in the news, none of which had been seen since the end of the eighteenth century.
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After a centuries-old hunt, experts at a roundtable declared that a “lost” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) masterpiece actually does not exist at all. Art historians Roberta Barsanti, Giancula Belli, Emanuela Ferrretti and Cecilia Frosinini presented the controversial findings at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence on 8 October 2020.
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When customs officials opened the luggage compartment of a bus on a highway just outside Paris they never expected to find a stolen masterpiece on board. Continue reading
A painting by Camille Pissarro looted by the Nazis from a French bank vault during the Second World War returned to France on 20 April after a decades-long battle for its restitution. Continue reading
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