Artnet News: "In a Historic Move, France Has Taken a Major Step Towards Fully Restituting 27 Looted African Objects to Senegal and Benin" - Jul 16, 2020
The French government has taken its first major legal step towards officially restituting 27 looted objects from its national collections to the former colonies of Senegal and Benin. See also Forbes's "France Would Return African Artifacts Through Proposed New Law."
Art Newspaper: "Sotheby's to auction £4m restituted Bellotto painting that Jewish retail magnate was forced to sell to Hitler" - Jul 8, 2020
A painting considered one of Bernado Bellotto’s major masterpieces is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s after it was restituted to the heirs of Max Emden, a Jewish retail magnate who lost much of his wealth as a result of Nazi persecution and sold the work under duress to Adolf Hitler.
Art Newspaper: "Heirs battle estate over $30m Monet painting from Emden collection sold during Nazi era" - Jul 8, 2020
Monet’s Le Palais Ducal has been kept off the market because of doubts cast about its Nazi-era sales history. The Klapper estate is suing in New York District Court to clear its title to the painting so that it can be sold at auction.