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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Mitterrand content de revoir en France le Degas volé au Havre | Paris Normandie.
Le tableau d’Edgar Degas, intitulé Les Blanchisseuses ou Blanchisseuses souffrant des dents, huile sur toile de 16 x 21 cm, déposé par l’Etat en 1961 au Musée Malraux du Havre et volé dans ce même musée en décembre 1973, a été retrouvé aux États-Unis ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
La Guardia Civil recupera obras de arte del siglo XIX robadas en una casa de Requena - Levante-EMV.
Objetos que los agentes confiscaron en casa del hombre que los compró para venderlos. guardia civil
T. DOMÍNGUEZ VALENCIA La Guardia Civil ha detenido a tres personas y ha logrado recuperar prácticamente todos las obras de artes ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Recuperato un dipinto del Guardi La tela era stata rubata nel 1986 - Corriere del Veneto.
VENEZIA - Un dipinto raffigurante «Il rio dei Mendicanti» di Francesco Guardi, rubato nel 1986 da un’abitazione a Venezia appartenente alla famiglia milanese dei conti Borletti, è stato recuperato dal Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale dei Carabinieri. Il ritrovamento ...
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Cursed' stolen artifact returned to Rawene
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/national-news/4184290/Cursed-stolen-artifact-returned-to-Rawene
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Last updated 15:40 30/09/2010
A valuable whalebone artefact stolen from an historic Northland house earlier this month has been returned undamaged to the Historic Places Trust.
The whalebone whip handle was stolen from Clendon House in Rawene, west of Kaikohe, and police believe it may have been ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Long-missing sculpture salmon returns to Eugene
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100917/UPDATE/100917048
By MARK BAKER • The Register-Guard, an AP Member Exchange feature • September 17, 2010
EUGENE — Roarrrrk!?!
That’s probably the sound the reddish-brown fish made when a certain someone tore if off the iconic bronze salmon sculpture in the downtown Park Blocks fountain at East ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Germany On Monday Handing Over To Ukraine Caravaggio Painting Stolen From Odesa Museum (09:47, Monday, August 30, 2010)
http://un.ua/eng/article/282731.html
Germany on Monday is handing over to Ukraine The Taking of Christ, or Judas's Kiss, a painting by Caravaggio, which had been stolen from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Artifact stolen from Vakil Mosque found
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/140029.html
Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:22AM
Police have recovered the inscription stolen from Vakil Mosque.
Iranian police have recovered an ancient inscription that was stolen from a historic mosque in southern province of Fars over four months ago.
“Investigations launched by police and heritage activists over the last ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Schiele Art Back In Austria After Ownership Feud
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129377681
by The Associated Press
VIENNA August 23, 2010, 11:34 am ET
A 12-year battle over the possession of a painting that was stolen from a Jewish Austrian by the Nazis came to a close on Monday when the work by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2010
Egyptian police recover stolen Van Gogh painting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_en_ot/ml_egypt_stolen_van_gogh
AFP/File – Two Italians were arrested at Cairo airport trying to smuggle out a Van Gogh painting stolen from a museum …
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press Writer Hadeel Al-shalchi, Associated Press Writer – 14 mins ago
CAIRO – Police recovered a painting by Vincent ...
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Mystery man returns David Light's £1,200 stolen painting, Bryn Henllan, to Fishguard gallery Wray of Light
http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/8318177.Mystery_man_returns___...
9:10am Sunday 8th August 2010
When a painting worth £1,200 was stolen from his gallery, artist David Light never expected to see the work again.
But last week – exactly a month after the theft – ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
Updated 4pm: Bronze plaques found under bush
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Despicable-thieves-steal-memorial-war-dead/article-2493605-detail/article.html
Dennis Monk
BRONZE plaques stolen from a First World War memorial have been found hidden in a bush.
It was feared the items, inscribed with hundreds of names of railway workers who lost their lives in the conflict, would be sold for scrap.
But they were ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
The friar and the Caravaggio thieves
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2010/07/29/the-friar-and-the-caravaggio-thieves/
Meet the Maltese priest at the heart a sting operation which saved a precious painting of St Jerome
By Anna Arco on Thursday, 29 July 2010
Fr Marius Zerafa, the priest who masterminded the rescue of a stolen Caravaggio, in front of a copy of Fra ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
300 Looted Antiquities Displayed in the Colosseum
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/bija/300-looted-antiquities-displayed-colosseum
Submitted by bija on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 13:43
337 archaeological objects, some of them from the eighth century BC, were displayed during a press conference in Rome. Photo by B Knowles.
More than 300 looted antiquities, estimated to be worth more than EUR15 million, were ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
July 12, 2010 20:13 PM
Hamas Foils Antiques Smuggling In Gaza
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=512948
GAZA, July 12 (Bernama) -- Hamas authorities on Monday said they have foiled an attempt to smuggle ancient antiques from the Gaza Strip to Israel.
The police arrested four smugglers who were trying to take the antiques out through the security ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Undercover avenger
http://www.jpost.com/Features/MagazineFeatures/Article.aspx?id=180818
By NOAH LEDERMAN
07/09/2010 16:58
Restoring the Holocaust’s stolen art.
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On the West Side of Manhattan, in a gray-walled waiting room of the Department of Homeland Security, a photograph reminds visitors of the calamity, now almost a decade old, that brought down two towers, left more than 3,000 dead and ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Stolen paintings of great Bulgarian artist found in London galley?
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n225121
11 July 2010 | 16:24 | FOCUS News Agency
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Sofia. Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov has received a signal that a gallery in London shelters paintings of Bulgarian artist Nikola Tanev, which have been stolen from a museum-house ...
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Museum helps save Iraqi treasures
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-walters-iraq-20100703,0,3581670,full.story
Walters' conservator Terry Drayman-Weisser helped train Iraqi museum employees to repair their damaged treasures
Terry Drayman-Weisser, the Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the Walters Art Museum, discusses her work in one of the museum's conservation labs. (Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun / ...
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Bather found in bushes on Furby Street
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/bather-found-in-bushes-on-furby-street-97651089.html
Leo Mol sculpture stolen days earlier from garden
By: Sandy Klowak
2/07/2010 1:00 AM
The sculpture stolen from the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Assiniboine Park earlier this week was recovered by police on Thursday morning.
The Bather, a 44-inch bronze sculpture by renowned Winnipeg artist Leo ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Stolen Caravaggio work recovered in Germany
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/06/28/caravaggio-recovered-theft.html
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A valuable Caravaggio painting stolen two years ago in Ukraine has been recovered in a joint effort by German and Ukrainian authorities, police announced in Berlin on Monday.
The large chiaroscuro painting, known as The ...
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Stolen clock recovered after owners saw it for sale on eBay
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/8240112.Stolen_clock_recovered_after_owners_saw_it_for_sale_on_eBay/
3:17pm Friday 25th June 2010
By Andy Woolfoot »
A RARE antique clock stolen from a home in Cirencester was recovered after its owners spotted it for sale on eBay.
Jackie Shopland-Reed, who lives in Lancashire, told the Standard the Liberty Clock ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
2 'Blue Dog' paintings recovered; police search for art thief
http://www.wwltv.com/news/crime/2-Blue-Dog-paintings-recovered-police-search-for-art-thief-96940719.html
by WWLTV.com
Posted on June 22, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Updated yesterday at 10:34 PM
NEW ORLEANS – Police have recovered two Blue Dog paintings and are now looking for a suspect who allegedly took them from George Rodrigue’s gallery.
Less than 24 hours ...
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Italian police recover stolen art
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20100619115143479C667796
June 19 2010 at 11:58AM
Rome - Italian police recovered 14 paintings and sculptures, including works by De Chirico and Kandinsky, worth an estimated 30 million euros (37 million dollars), and arrested two people for receiving stolen goods, the Italian news agency Ansa reported Saturday.
The art ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Missing statue reunited with owner
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_e2f17...
By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter | Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:22 pm | 1 Comment
‘Exaltation’ has been recovered and returned to its owner. (Contributed photo)
A valuable statue stolen by burglars last month has found its way home and four suspects are under arrest, thanks ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Authorities recover stolen Hindu statue
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12648333
Associated Press - June 14, 2010 6:54 PM ET
CAPSHAW, Ala. (AP) - Limestone County investigators have recovered 1 of 2 giant statues of winged demigods stolen from the entrance to a Hindu Temple in Capshaw.
Limestone Sheriff's Capt. Stanley McNatt says a man was mowing a ...
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Confiscated relics submitted to ICHTO
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=130151§ionid=351020105
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:06:39 GMT
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Over 6 tons of relics were confiscated from Argentine diplomat Sebastian Zavala.
The Persian relics confiscated from an Argentinean diplomat last year have been submitted to Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.
Over 6 tons of handcrafts and relics ...
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
'I posed as an agent for a wheeler-dealer'
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/interview_i-posed-as-an-agent-for-a-wheeler-dealer_1395617
Sunday, June 13, 2010 0:54 IST
What has been your most exciting experience as an art detective?
On September 1, 1993, I was acting as an undercover cop portraying myself as a middleman for Middle Eastern wheeler-dealers. A Belgian gendarme was posing as my ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Austria Urges Return of Altar Panels to Jewish Heir (Update1)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-10/austria-urges-return-of-altar-panels-to-jewish-heir-update1-.html
June 10, 2010, 11:54 AM EDT
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By Catherine Hickley
June 10 (Bloomberg) -- An Austrian government council recommended that two 16th-century Dutch altar panels, two paintings and two statuettes seized by the Nazis should be returned to the heir of their ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Press release: Wednesday 9 June 2010
UK appoints Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues
Foreign Secretary William Hague has appointed Sir Andrew Burns as the United Kingdom’s first Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues.
Sir Andrew, a former UK Ambassador to Israel, will be responsible for leading the Government’s efforts on a range of important post-Holocaust ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Descartes letter returned to French library
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g5SktlpbtRb96K1jjLQrBrFxZopgD9G78LKG1
(AP) – 16 hours ago
PARIS — A letter by 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes that languished unnoticed in a U.S. college library for more than a century has been restored to France.
The president of Haverford College — which has had the letter since 1902 ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Looting Matters: Italian Prosecutor Calls for Return of Antiquities
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2010/06/italian-prosecutor-we-want-to.html
SWANSEA, Wales, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the call by an Italian prosecutor for the return of three lots due to be auctioned in New York.
The seizure of a major photographic dossier in the Geneva Freeport continues to ...
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Six selling 16th-century idol walk into cop trap
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Six-selling-16th-century-idol-walk-into-cop-trap/articleshow/5989922.cms
Vineet Gill, TNN, May 30, 2010, 04.04am IST
NEW DELHI: The special staff of central district police on Friday arrested six people who were allegedly trying to sell a 16-century idol. Officials of Archaelogical Survey of India said the ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
'Of all that we are fighting to preserve'
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=283507
BY BRUCE KAUFFMANN FOR THE TH
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Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Second World War, was not your typical soldier, as evidenced by the order he issued this week (May 26) in 1944, right before the Allied D-Day ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Police in Argentina Recover 77 Paintings Stolen Last November
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38089
Police officers stand behind a section of the recovered 74 paintings in Bueno Aires May 15, 2010. The paintings, stolen on November 2009 from a private museum and are valued at about $3 million, could be one of the biggest recoveries in ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Stolen gold Buddha statue recovered
http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/05/10/sec04.asp
Edward Weerasinghe - Kelaniya group correspondent
Kiribathgoda police has arrested three suspects wanted in connection with stealing a Gold Buddha statue worth over Rs. 250 lakhs. Western Province North DIG H. S. Dayananda, SSP Kelaniya Kithsiri Ganegama, ASP Kelaniya Anton Sirikumara ...
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Reassembled 15th-century altarpiece to go home
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Reassembled-15th-century-altarpiece-to-go-home/20696
St Korbinian panels by Friedrich Pacher will return to the Austrian pilgrimage church
By Martin Bailey | From issue 213, May 2010
Published online 6 May 10 (Conservation)
St Korbinian altarpiece
london. A 500-year altarpiece by Friedrich Pacher has recently been reassembled and will go back to the Alpine ...
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