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.”
Tag: 11.14.06
Two Fra Angelicos Found
“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.”