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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Claude Monet

Visitors look at a painting by the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec while visiting an exhibition titled Eye to Eye which showcases over 120 works by modern world artists as well as Iranian painters at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tehran, November 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 22, 2024, 6:09 pm
Young Iranians delighted as long-hidden vast Western art collection goes on display
Works by Monet, Warhol and others, worth billions, reemerge amid tensions with US, drawing crowds of headscarf-less women surprised such art can be seen without going abroad
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Jon Gambrell
Claude Monet's "Bord de Mer," 1865. (Artsy)
October 9, 2024, 8:45 pm
FBI returns Nazi-looted Monet pastel to Jewish owners’ heirs 84 years later
Descendants of Viennese Jews Adalbert ‘Bela’ and Hilda Parlagi receive 1865 ‘Bord de Mer,’ depicting Normandy countryside, located in US after decades of postwar searching
By Sarah N. Lynch
Vincent van Gogh's "Der alte Turm," 1884. (Public Domain)
June 21, 2024, 9:46 am
Swiss museum takes down 5 paintings looted by Nazis as part of probe into origins
Foundation that owns pieces, including by van Gogh and Monet, says it is working to reach fair settlement with descendants of former owners
By Jamey Keaten
A visitor watches the paintings 'Melancholisches Maedchen' (left) and Nackte Frau im Walde" of German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art - confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)
November 1, 2017, 8:53 pm
Hundreds of Nazi-looted artworks go on display in twin exhibitions
450 pieces from Gurlitt collection displayed in Switzerland and Germany to shed light on systematic theft from Jewish collectors
By Madeleine SCHWARTZ
Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/ AFP/File)
April 4, 2016, 10:32 pm
Swiss, German museums to show Nazi-era art hoard
Vast collection belonged to Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father was tasked by Hitler to help plunder great works from Jewish collectors
By AFP
A pastel on paper drawing of the lighthouse and jetty at Le Havre, by Claude Monet, c. 1868. The piece lay hidden inside the frame of another pastel by Monet. (Courtesy Richard Green Gallery)
June 25, 2015, 7:21 pm
To the lighthouse: How a very lucky art dealer found a hidden Monet
London-based Jonathan Green buys two small pastels at Paris auction, discovers previously unknown third treasure painted on the back of one of them
By Jonathan Beck
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