Published: Thursday 4th October 2018
Etruscan lar and Tiwanaku jar returned to Italy and Bolivia The Art Loss Register is delighted to announce the repatriation of two stolen objects to their countries of origin. The object returned to Italy in early October was an Etruscan bronze ‘lar’ statuette that was stolen from the Archaeological Museum in Siena in 1988. Read […]
Published: Saturday 11th August 2018
Hubert Robert drawing recovered Amongst many of the cases on which we have been working this year, we are happy to report the recovery of a Hubert Robert work in ink and watercolour. The drawing was registered on the ALR database after a theft from a private residence in Brussels in June 2004. It was […]
Published: Thursday 26th April 2018
PRESS RELEASE One of two Roman marble torsos looted from Lebanon in 1981, and now repatriated through the Art Loss Register and New York law enforcement Two antiquities looted during the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s have been returned to Lebanon and will be displayed at the National Museum in Beirut. The marble sculptures […]
Published: Thursday 30th November 2017
A bust of Matisse’s daughter, stolen from a Swiss museum 25 years ago, and now recovered In 1906, the celebrated artist Henri Matisse created a bronze sculpture of his young daughter Marguerite, who was the subject of so many of his works. The piece is particularly interesting as it was made during the early years […]
Published: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Rolex GMT Master ‘Eye of the Tiger’ watch, valued at £13,500, stolen from Swiss Time Machine in London in 2016 and identified two months later by the Watch Register when offered for sale with 50 others stolen ones PRESS RELEASE: JULY 2017 “The assistance provided by the Art Loss Register continues to be of great investigative value to police […]