Restitution - a serious threat to the art market?

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It agrees with Vladimir on all counts

In addition, let me recall an article on restitution, which I translated a while ago - it says that often go to the heirs of the victim and are prepared to be satisfied with more or less the needed sum, to leave work at the museum.
If the Austrian authorities had not reacted to the heiress of Adele Bauer with such arrogance, it's likely, "Golden Adele" has not crossed to the Atlantic Ocean.

It is true that the processes of restitution in lately, but do not think that get stolen in the nightmarish conditions of art so easily. For example, just last week I read that not long ago in Germany, was the process between the heir robbed and murdered during the Second World War collectors and whether the directorate of the museum, which houses the stolen painting, whether the authorities of Moldova, can not remember where advocates of the museum /Landa referred to the fact that the owners of the pictures violated the law, conducted by the Nazis in 1938 that a person of Jewish descent must take all belonging to them works of art, and thus deprived themselves of ownership - as the saying goes, better read this than to be blind!

I think that the return of the heirs, even if distant, despoiled, destitute, and often physically unmchtozhennyh people their stolen property morally necessary to close this shameful chapter in the history of mankind.

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France yesterday, March 11, 2014 , returned three paintings seized at the time the Nazis from the rightful owners , although it is only a small part of the nearly 2,000 such works remains unclaimed.
All works of art stolen by the Nazis and in museums in France , digitized and freely available in the hope that the previous owners , their heirs or successors will see them and will declare to them their rights.
French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti /Aurélie Filippetti returning three works - " Mountain Landscape " by the Flemish painter Joos de Momper /Joos de Momper (1564-1635), " Portrait of a Woman " XVIII century icon " Madonna with Child " - said in an official ceremony , that she " happy once again to perform an act of reparation and justice ", which it considers a moral duty to his ministry .