An escape from war-torn Germany. Lavish dinners with Hollywood royalty. A Swedish baron and a dime-store heiress: we explore the long journey of a Van Gogh still life — and what it says about the real...Show More
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epekilis recommended:Aug 3rd, 2020
How do we value art? What is the value of a minor work by a major artist? A tale of Nazi art plundering, museum art hoarding and the impact of laws that blocked reparations. It’s fascinating that the only painting the family managed to recover was not from an art gallery but from a private compan...Show More
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rmmiller364 recommended:Aug 7th, 2020
This episode gets to a couple of important art issues: the importance of proper (and ethical) provenance research when collecting art (provenance is the history of ownership of an artwork), the controversy over deaccessioning (when a collection removes a work), and restitution of artworks to Jewish ...Show More