Alexander Hermanさんのイラストまとめ

Following Fri's announcement of @NPGLondon & @GettyMuseum intent to co-purchase Portrait of Mai during #export deferral, I have some thoughts on the legal & practical issues, inspired by exchanges w/ @neiljeffares & @arthistorynews 👍 @IAL_art_law BLOG: https://t.co/g1WBIAugsB

🌟 Restitution archive 🌟 For a long time, people have been looking for a single archive that gathers together all the stories of returned cultural objects from around the world. The RETURNING HERITAGE archive at last answers the call: https://t.co/tp4iSUgiJd

Greatest portrait of the 18th Century (?), Joshua Reynolds' 'Portrait of Omai' (1775-6), is currently under UK export deferral, which was extended earlier this month until 10 March 2023, meaning that....
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Everyone's excited 👇 because we are running our popular IP Diploma course in just over 3 weeks time (online, 13-15 June), covering #art #copyright #museums #sculptures #facepaint #trademarks collections management... even #NFTs 😯 https://t.co/Ca5Wy7xTdH @IAL_art_law

"The Dance" by Henri Matisse: commissioned by Russian aristocrat Sergei Shchukin in 1910, confiscated by Soviet decree in 1918, languished for much of the 20th century, now given pride of place at the Hermitage in St Petersburg, Russia. Ah, the life of paintings!

And here is Raphael's "Transfiguration" in all its glory, looted from the Vatican in 1797 and returned from the Louvre by Canova in 1815 https://t.co/PiiKHRynxf @arthistorynews @JANUSZCZAK @arthistnetwork @arthistoryfocus

Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Omai (c 1776)
2001-2015: centre of a tax dispute
2002-2012: centre of an export dispute
Since then, stuck in UK storage & unseen by the public (save a brief foray in 2018 to @rijksmuseum)
A sad state of affairs for this great 18th C portrait....
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Story of "The Presence" by AE Borthwick:
1910: painted in St Mary's, Edinburgh
1914: sent to Munich for reproduction
WW1: "sold" to American company, image used by NY newspaper, artist sues for © infringement
1918: Congress passes law blocking sale, painting returns to Edinburgh

The amazing life of 1 painting:
1889 - painted by Van Gogh at asylum
1977 - covertly bought by Swiss dealer
1988 - expropriated by Italy
1998 - stolen in art heist (later recovered)
2000 - subject of landmark human rights case
2018 - identity of sitter discovered by Martin Bailey

More #copyright weirdness: Paul Klee (left) in public domain in Europe, but works from 1926-1940 in copyright in US; Picasso (right) in copyright in Europe, but works from 1894-1925 in public domain in US. 🙁😬🥴🙄