Washington Post: "Doubting Gauguin" - Jul 30, 2020
Two major US museums are to examine claims that their Gauguin paintings are fakes. The pictures are The Invocation (1903) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and Women and a White Horse (1903) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
New York Times: "Senate report: opaque art market helped oligarchs evade sanctions" - Jul 29, 2020
Companies linked to two Russian oligarchs exploited the opaqueness of the art world to buy high-value art, bypassing U.S. sanctions, according to a report by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.