provenance

Nazi Art Looting in Holland

Wartime records offer an uncensored window into the art market.

A major new data set joins the Provenance Index.

Eric Hormell | March 1, 2017

A digital art history case study on computational analysis of historical data.

Ruth Cuadra and Agnès Penot | February 15, 2017

What‘s next on the Getty’s digital horizon.

Annelisa Stephan | August 1, 2016

Headless no more, a Roman statue in the Getty’s collection now seeks its true identity.

Lyra Kilston | July 27, 2016

The history of two ancient mosaics—now reunited in L.A.—encompasses farmhands, French noblemen, American tycoons, and a Hollywood talent agent.

Exploring wartime provenance.

Ashley Medina | May 31, 2016

16,000 new art-sales records are now online.

Kelly Davis | October 5, 2015

J. Paul Getty, the mysterious art hunter.

Sarah Glover | July 28, 2015

New online: searchable records from the 19th-century stock books of famed art dealers Knoedler Gallery.

Christian Huemer | September 22, 2014

From Leningrad to Washington D.C.: the complexities of an exceptional art sale

A major new project traces the rise of the British art market in the late 1700s.

Eric Hormell | June 19, 2013