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Research – Provenance Research Project
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Interim Reports
Details of objects under investigation will not be released until the Research Team concludes it has either resolved issues of ownership, or its enquiries have exhausted all available avenues. The following Interim Reports document the research progress to date.
May 2002
Ownership during the period 1933-45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following objects and they have been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Jules Aime DALOU Minerve soutenant la Liberte (Acc. 1:1849)
Charles DESPIAU Apollo (Acc. 1:0904)
Of the 59 objects to be investigated, 15 have now been cleared.
Research undertaken since March has generated a further 12 elements (making a current total of 120) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance and exhibition history.
March 2002
Ownership during the period 1933-45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following objects and they have been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Suzanne FREMONT-CHERVIER Paris window (Acc. 1:0582)
Bernard MENINSKY Portrait (Acc. 1:0777)
Of the 59 objects to be investigated, 13 have now been cleared.
Research undertaken since January has generated a further 4 elements (making a current total of 108) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance and exhibition history.
January 2002
Ownership during the period 1933-45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following object and it has been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Roderic O¹CONNOR The cider drinker (Acc. 1:0776)
Of the 59 objects to be investigated, 11 have now been cleared.
Research undertaken since November has generated a further 6 elements (making a current total of 104) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance and exhibition history.
November 2001
Ownership during the period 1933–45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following object and it has been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Jacques LIPCHITZ Musical instruments 1925 (Acc. 1983.034)
Research undertaken since October has generated a further 8 elements (making a current total of 98) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance, exhibition history, references and date of object.
October 2001
Ownership during the period 1933–45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following object (deaccessioned in 1993) and it has been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Gustave LOISEAU Pommiers à Tournedos-sur-Seine 1899 (Acc. 1:1359)
The date of casting of the following object has been corrected to c.1960 thus eliminating it from the list of those being investigated:
Paul GAUGUIN Madame Schuffenecker c.1960 (Acc. 1:1822)
Research undertaken since August has generated a further 19 elements (making a current total of 90) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance, exhibition history, references and date of object.
August 2001
Ownership during the period 1933–45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following objects and they have been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Roderic O¹CONOR Demi-nu au bonnet 1923 (Acc. 1:1515)
Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Tête de fille 1892 (Acc. 1:0789)
Research undertaken since July has generated a further 10 elements (making a current total of 71) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance, published references, exhibition history and date of object.
July 2001
Ownership during the period 1933–45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following objects and they have been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Leonardo DUDREVILLE Expansion of poetry 1913 (Acc. 1994.285)
Pierre Auguste RENOIR Portrait of Madame Renoir c.1916 (Acc. 1:0764)
Research undertaken since June has generated a further 11 elements (making a current total of 61) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance, published references, exhibition history and date of object.
June 2001
Ownership during the period 1933–45 was clarified satisfactorily for the following objects and they have been removed from the list of those being investigated:
Edgar DEGAS Trois danseuses à la classe de danse c.1888–90 (Acc. 1:0784)
Marino MARINI Pomona c.1939–42 (Acc. 1983.069)
Research undertaken since April has generated a further 11 elements (making a current total of 50) of data not previously recorded in the Catalogue. These relate to provenance, published references, exhibition history and date of object.
April 2001
Of the 59 objects being researched, the first group of 32 has had the accuracy of Catalogue data confirmed against the source material held by the Gallery.
The search relating to these objects has moved into the next phase, which includes consultation with the parties from whom the Gallery acquired these objects, other previous owners, scholars, and staff from archives and libraries, and international government agencies assisting with art loot enquiries.
In response to external enquiries made earlier in the year by the Research Team, it has been confirmed that the Master of Frankfurt painting Virgin and Child with Saint James the Pilgrim, Saint Catherine and the Donor with Saint Peter was confiscated by Nazi authorities in 1939. The Research Team had been alerted to this possibility when the name ‘Oscar Bondy¹, a previous owner, was found on the Commission for Art Recovery list. This contains the names of many of those involved in the confiscation of art objects by the Nazis. The presence of a handwritten inscription ‘OB 1304¹ on the reverse of the painting, which did not match Bondy¹s catalogue number, supported this assumption.
The Kommission für Provenienzforschung (Commission for Provenance Research) of the Austrian Government was able to confirm the inscription was the number assigned by Nazi authorities when Bondy¹s collection was confiscated in 1939 and advised that the painting had been intended for Hitler¹s Führermuseum planned for the Austrian city of Linz. It was also confirmed the painting had been restituted to Bondy¹s widow in 1947. This painting has been withdrawn from the objects under investigation.
As well as helping to clarify ownership of these objects, the research being undertaken is generating data previously not recorded in the Gallery¹s Catalogue. To date 39 elements of new information have been collected relating to provenance, published references, exhibition history, inscriptions and date of object. This information will be added to the respective record in the Gallery¹s Catalogue at the completion of the research for each object.
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