Official Presentations, Reports and Speeches:
Rapport définitif du groupe de travail sur les provenances d’oeuvres récupérées après la seconde guerre mondiale 27 November 2014
27 November 2014: The report of the French government's working group on the provenance of works of art returned to France after the Second World War has been published. Among the 27 works identified as looted and whose heirs are now being sought are MNR 645 Bateaux sur une mer agitée which belonged to the Bargeboer couple from Holland, both of whom perished; MNR 609 et MNR 610, oil paintings by Joseph Vernet which belonged to Édouard de Rothschild; R6D, a drawing by Marie Laurencin which belonged to Paul Rosenberg; OAR 45 et OAR 474, tapestries which belonged to Daniel Wolf of Amsterdam, and MNR 733, an oil painting by Egbert van der Poel which belonged to Eugene Reiz.
The group made a number of recommendations regarding the public availability of research resources, including the need to improve the documentation and information available on the MNR site, the creation of a guide to archival documentation and the digitisation of auction catalogues. The group's members were Thierry Bajou, Elisabeth Foucart-Walter, Elouise Garnier, Catherine Granger, Muriel de Bastier, Anne Liskenne, Monique Leblois-Péchon, Emmanuelle Pollack, Alain Prévet, Rachel Rimmer, Isabelle Rixte, Anne Roquebert, Philippe Saunier and France Legueltel, chair of the group.
To read the report, click here.
