by Jessica | Nov 2, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Auction Sales, Export licences, National Treasures
For several months, Jane Austen’s ring has provoked quite a sensation. Back in July 2012 US pop idol Kelly Clarkson placed the winning bid at a Sotheby’s auction for £152,450 against the Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. According to the Telegraph...
by Jessica | May 21, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Auction Sales, Crime, Cultural Heritage
The art world has watched this cultural heritage story unfold and it has a happy ending for Cambodia. This case follows in the footsteps of other recent cases concerning Museums giving back looted or stolen art work, marking a positive shift in favour of the...
by Jessica | May 20, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Crime, Exhibitions
Art Republic Gallery in Soho were going to put on an exhibition of Chemical X’s latest artwork due to start on Friday 17th May 2013, however because the artwork contained two pieces made up of over 12,000 ecstasy tablets, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, the art...
by Jessica | May 14, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Auction Sales, Disputed Title, Restitution
On 21st March this year a claim was filed against Sotheby’s auction house for refusing to refund a buyer his money when it transpired that the eighteenth century French old master painting he bought for $57,600 was once owned by Hermann Goering and was now worthless....
by Jessica | May 13, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Export licences, National Treasures
In May this year, the Culture Minister Ed Vaizey blocked the export of a rare suit of jewels commissioned by the Prince Regent George IV as a gift in 1816 to one of the Cotes sisters’; ladies in waiting to his daughter Princess Charlotte, to be worn on the...
