Tag: 11.14.06

Restituted art stolen by Nazis has become big business. But “sometimes we are dealing with a business in which many secondary players, lawyers, art dealers, are trying to get their piece of the pie. These are often the driving forces and are driving up prices.”

“Experts in Italian renaissance art have recently discovered two works by the Florentine painter Fra Angelico “hanging behind a door in the spare room of an elderly woman’s two-up, two-down in Oxford. The paintings will go on sale next year and are expected to fetch more than £1 million.”