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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? – Banksy’s Spy Booth

by Jessica | Jul 3, 2014 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Disputed Title, Public Art

Every few weeks there is another news story about a Banksy graffiti painting being put up and then ripped off the walls by owners of the property and flogged for high prices in auction. Last month it was the fantastic mobile lovers artwork painted on the side of a...

A Nazi cloud over title – Auction houses refuse to sell Goering’s painting

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....

Cultural Heritage Claims Get Political Over One Of The Seven Wonder’s Of The World – Statutes From The Halicarnassus

by Jessica | Dec 10, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Disputed Title, Restitution

In what has been a steady and systematic push by the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertugrul Gunay on the restitution of cultural artefacts from museums of the world, has now culminated in a legal test case due to be lodged before the European Court of Human...

Wrong Defendant and Wrong Jurisdiction?

by Jessica | Mar 18, 2012 | Art Lawyer, Disputed Title, Jurisdiction, Restitution

An interesting pending restitution case, where ownership is disputed, concerns Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane. The Art Newspaper, in their issue 233, March 2012 has provided an update in this case as an interesting legal twist takes place. Mr...

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