Matisse returned to Rosenberg Family by Oslo Museum

"Woman in Blue in Front of Fireplace", by Matisse (1937) was returned to the Rosenberg family by the Oslo Museum yesterday after looted by the Nazis. It's never too late to put things in their rightful place.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Matisse-painting-stolen-by-Nazis-is-returned-5338738.php

That's awesome!  Just yesterday I went to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to see the MAtisse exhibit...on loan from the baltimore museum of art...matisse followed me here from baltimore!!!

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from the article, was the painting abandoned...or stolen? is there a difference? i could read about art history all day.

The article only indicates the painting was "purchased in good faith". Not sure what is meant by that, but you raise interesting questions: What is, or is not considered pilfered art?

Here's an article that blurs the lines further. A relative of the former curator for the Nazi party, Gurlitt, was found to possess more than 60 Renoir, Monet, and Picasso's in 2012. He was exonerated, but if that is not looted, what is?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/stolen-nazi-paintings-austria-germany-picasso-renoir-monet

fascinating stuff ty, too bad there's no pic of the artworks! keem the articles coming when you find them. for a period there i was obsessed with venetian high renaissance art of titian and giorgione.

cccc wrote:fascinating stuff ty, too bad there's no pic of the artworks! keem the articles coming when you find them.  for a period there i was obsessed with venetian high renaissance art of titian and giorgione.

I'm not sophisticated enough for the Venetian high renaissance art, but I love impressionism. Some of those french 19th Century artists were just brilliant. Sure makes baseball cards pale in comparison. Sigh.

Q, Thought I'd share, not sure if you heard about this recent recovery in LA Dec. 2014:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/us-usa-art-heist-idUSKBN0JX2D420141219