Published: Saturday 1st February 2020
What have we been up to? It might be quite late but wishing you all a very happy and successful 2020! Recovery of ancient Kushan sculpture makes international headlines We are delighted to announce that a Kushan sculpture that was stolen the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul in the 1990s will shortly be repatriated. […]
Published: Friday 17th January 2020
The ALR has worked with the Metropolitan Police and the British Museum to return the sculpture to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul The Art Loss Register (ALR) is pleased to announce the forthcoming repatriation of a sculpture to Afghanistan. The fragment has been recovered after being offered for sale at TimeLine Auctions, a […]
Published: Saturday 5th October 2019
What have we been up to? It has been an extremely busy (but successful!) few months at the ALR. A few event highlights in which we have been involved include… Yesterday… – The ALR’s Paul Exbrayat was in Lille presenting to an academic conference on “From identification to restitution of confiscated works during WW2”, organised […]
Published: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Stik stolen from Hackney Gardens As profiled in the Financial Times at the end of May, the Art Loss Register would like to warn the public and art trade that three artworks created by the renowned street artist Stik have been stolen from the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, a social enterprise garden in Hackney. The […]
Published: Monday 11th February 2019
Henry Bone portrait recovered An enamel work by Henry Bone has been recovered by the ALR and sold at a UK auction house towards the end of last year. The portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Francis Wheler Hood is after an original by Thomas Stewardson, now at Loders Hall in Dorset. A pencil drawing by […]
