#WantedWednesday "Moon Night At The Seashore" by Caspar David Friedrich, 1808. Confiscated by Nazi soldiers, the painting went missing at some point during WWII. Current whereabouts remain unknown. Courtesy of Lost Art Database. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts
Turkey recovers 100 looted antiquities from US, unveils them in Istanbul show. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts
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"Forest in Autumn" by Gustave Courbet, 1841. Currently part of a private collection. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts #paintingoftheday
#WantedWednesday "Still life with violin and guitar" by Elisabeth Springer, 1930. Disappeared during WWII, current whereabouts remain unknown. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts
Egyptian police have seized 521 artifacts dating back to the Pharaonic, Greek, and Roman eras. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts #artrecovery #artfraud
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"The Love Letter" by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770. Currently located at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts #paintingoftheday
#WantedWednesday "Walchensee Landscape in Autumn" by Lovis Corinth, 1922. The painting was confiscated at some point during WWII, there are rumors that it ended up in a private collection in the 1950s but current whereabouts remain unknown. Courtesy of Lost Art Database. #OGC
Israel returns 22 stolen Hellenic antiquities to Greece in first-ever repatriation. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts #arttheft #artfraud #artrecovery
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#WantedWednesday "Death" by Ferdinand Hodler, 1915. The drawing was placed on a shipment to Vienna, but was held up in storage due to the outbreak of World War II, the shipment never made it to Vienna, remains missing. Courtesy of Art Loss Database. #OGC
Two paintings by impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stolen from a museum in southern France earlier this year have been discovered hidden behind a wall. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts #arttheft
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"At the Seashore" by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, 1886. Current located at the National Museum, Warsaw in Poland. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime
#WantedWednesday "Garden path with chickens" by Gustav Klimt, 1916. Believed to have been confiscated by the Gestapo in 1940 and/or burned at Immendorf Castle, Lower Austria, on May 8, 1945. Courtesy of Art Loss Database.
#OGC #artdetective #artcrime #lootedartifacts
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returns 11 artifacts to Thailand. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #artrecovery
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Manhattan District Attorney Office returned 36 looted antiquities valued around $5 million to Syria. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #lootedartifacts #artfraud #artrecovery
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"Juno Puts Argo's Eyes in the Peacock's Tail" by Italian Baroque painter Orazio Riminaldi , 1617. Currently located at the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome. ##OGC #artdetective #artcrime #paintingoftheday
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 147 antiquities totaling nearly $2.4 million to the people of Turkey, Pakistan, and Thailand. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #lootedartifacts
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"Moonlight" by Knud Baade, 1869. Currently located at the KODE Art Museum in Bergen, Norway. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #paintingoftheday
#WantedWednesday "Two Servants Lay Fruit on a Table" by Francesco Bassano II, date unknown. Confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939, current whereabouts are unknown. Courtesy of Lost Art Database. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking
Homeland Security Investigations Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities division seized over 22,000 artifacts as part of an ongoing investigation into global antiquities smuggling in Tampa. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #lootedartifacts
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"La Soirée" by Vittorio Reggianini, 1900. Currently held in a private collection. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #paintingoftheday












