Kimball to relinquish Vichy-looted Turner

This story is a month old; somehow I missed it until running across this article:

A Turner painting stolen by the French Government during the Second World War is set to be returned to the heirs of its owner thanks to the efforts of a Richmond historian and researcher.

Ian Locke, who has uncovered the secret histories of dozens of paintings, began to look into the collection of John Jaffe, a prominent Jewish art collector who resided in Nice, in 1999.

The Turner, Glaucus and Scylla, has been at the Kimball since 1966. A writeup from June is here; more here; the Kimball catalog entry is here.

Posted by David on July 7, 2006 1:08 PM