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...
by Jessica | Mar 15, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Restitution
Whilst many museums have feared Turkey’s increasingly aggressive stance in reclaiming their cultural heritage, (museums such as The British Museum, Pergamon and Metroplitan Museum of Art have all faced recent restitution claims) at the Dallas Museum they have taken a...
by Jessica | Mar 13, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Renaissance, Restitution
“Use every means of transport to get all works of art out of Florence …. saving works of art from English and Americans. In fine get anything away that you can get hold of. Heil Hitler.” Heinrich Himmler (HW1/3113) This chilling message, underscores the Nazis desire...
by Jessica | Mar 12, 2013 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Restitution
Restitution claims and cultural heritage claims seem to be gathering pace. After years of rather slow progress on these fronts, these stories now seem to be hitting the news on a regular basis. Could it be “the times they are a changin’?” The French Minister of...
by Jessica | Feb 17, 2013 | Art Law, Auction Sales, Misattribution, Renaissance
An interesting case concerning one of Caravaggio’s most famous paintings – “The Cardsharps” has recently been filed in the High Court of Justice in London. Sotheby’s is being sued for damages for failing to identify this work as being a work by the Master rather than...
by Jessica | Dec 10, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Auction Sales, Renaissance
Following on from the rather sensational record sale for any artwork, Edvard Munch’s 1895 “The Scream” that sold in a Sotheby’s Sale in New York earlier this year for nearly $120 million that had tremendous publicity with a stunning short film that certainly racked up...
