by Jessica | Mar 18, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Fakes and Forgeries
There is an ongoing investigation by French police in relation to forged works of original works by Jean Prouvé. A man was arrested in January this year and is charged with the counterfeiting of intellectual property and faces other forgery charges. This is a case...
by Jessica | Mar 18, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Restitution
Cultural heritage issues spark up again over the strange case of the attempted sale of Saddam Hussein’s bronze bottom This was a strange cultural heritage case for 2011 that concerned the Saddam Hussein monument from central Baghdad that was famously brought down in...
by Jessica | Mar 17, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Restitution
Germany’s Highest Court rules that German museum must return art work stolen by the Nazis On Friday 16th March the Highest Court in Germany, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled that the German Historical Museum must return to Peter Sachs, a US Citizen,...
by Jessica | Mar 14, 2012 | Art Law, Cultural Heritage
The “James Ossuary” – Seven Year Forgery Trial finally comes to an end but the debate over the authenticity of the oldest archaeological link to Jesus is far from over. On the 14th March 2012, Israeli art collector Oded Golan, charged in 2004 of leading an...
by Jessica | Mar 13, 2012 | Art Law, Cultural Heritage, Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci “I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have” This is an extraordinary quote from probably the most highly valued artist in the world as recent discoveries of Leonardo’s lost masterpieces is the stuff of...
