Read more about this issue in ATG's legal column. In contrast, in the UK the Limitation Act 1980 means that after six years from the date of the ‘good faith purchase’ the original owner may not have a claim. Under US law, even the defence of a ‘good faith purchase’ (ie the buyer did not know the item was stolen in the past) may not be enough. “We have been recovering one or two pictures per year from this 60-year-old theft and we’re never going to give up until every last one is returned.” As an adolescent, he became fascinated with the arts and at seventeen began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Marinello added: “Anyone buying or selling a painting by Edouard-Leon Cortés or Antoine Blanchard is advised to check with the Arnot Gallery for proper authentication. Edouard Leon Cortes, of French and Spanish ancestry, was born in 1882. “I cannot stress enough the importance of performing due diligence and authentication checks which would have uncovered this stolen painting decades earlier.” While in this instance, we were able to convince many of the parties to reimburse the other, eventually there will be those who are out of luck. Marinello said: “We are very grateful to Bradley Carnes, Capes Dunn and their vendor for releasing this stolen painting unconditionally to the Arnot Gallery. The painting had been consigned to Capes Dunn in 2022 from an estate in Cheshire who confirmed that it was acquired from a London gallery. Then earlier this year it emerged that Cortès’ Flower Market Madeleine was offered for sale by Lancashire art dealer Carnes Fine Art.Īccording to Art Recovery International, Carnes purchased the artwork in November 2022 at Capes Dunn auction house. A subsequent court case led to the imprisonment of the offender but many of the artworks were not recovered. The picture was one of up to 3000 paintings stolen from the Herbert Arnot Gallery in New York City over a 12-year period in the 1950s and 1960s by an employee. , featuring works by fine artists such as Julie Bell.Enjoy unlimited access: just £1 for 12 weeks Subscribe nowįlower Market Madeleine by Cortés has been recovered with the help of Christopher Marinello, lawyer and founder of Art Recovery International. The gallery is working on the catalogue raisonné research projects for Daniel Ridgway Knight, Julien Dupré, Emile Munier, and Antoine Blanchard.Īlso located on 5 57th St., in Manhattan, is Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc. Rehs Galleries, along with its principals, is regarded among the world’s top dealers of 19th and early 20th-century European paintings. At age 16, he made his debut at the Paris Salon with Le Labour, which borrows from realist and naturalist painters, as well as his father and his older brother André, best known as a skilled painter of horses. 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, France, some 20 miles east of Paris, into a family of artists, including his father, Antonio Cortés, a painter for the Spanish Royal Court, Cortès began training as a boy. In April, Place de la Republique en Soir (circa 1905), unseen for 114 years, found its way to Rehs Galleries, Inc., in pristine condition, as the most rare Cortès painting on the market, at the time.īorn Aug. Some 500 works by Cortès have passed through Rehs’ hands over the years in his family business, selling more than 75 paintings by the artist over the the last two years alone. “We sent an email to one of our important collectors and they were sold!" “We did not even have an opportunity to exhibit the works,” said Rehs. When the American buyer, one of the elite gallery’s most revered (and confidential) clients, received the paintings, he proclaimed: “They’re perfect.” All they needed was a light cleaning and new frames." “Also, knowing that they have not been touched since they were painted, usually ensures that their condition is as close to perfect as possible. “You never know what you will find when you open up an email, and to find these fresh-to-the-market works is an art dealer's dream,” Rehs, director of Rehs Galleries, recalled. By 1957, Cortès began sending paintings to Johnson regularly, including Moulin Rouge and Avenue de l’Opera. 20, 1956, Johnson offered the artist a solo show, which Cortès declined amid a spike in demand for his work. Johnson, of Johnson Galleries, traveled to France and met with Cortès.
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