Recently Discovered Old Master “St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus” at Auction in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A recently discovered and undocumented Old Master painting of “St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus” from the School of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is coming to auction in New Orleans at Crescent City Auction Gallery on Saturday, July 23. The Baroque painting portrays St. Joseph as a young father and the baby Jesus as a toddler holding a branch of lilies. According to David J. Goldberg – the appraiser who discovered the painting in a private collection in New Orleans,http://www.appraisalgroupusa.com - the [...]

SMU’s Meadows Museum has Art Nazis’ Stolen in World War II

DALLAS, TX (AP).- Southern Methodist University’s Meadow’s Museum has learned that three of its well-known paintings were among the millions of artworks Nazis Germany stole from Jewish families more than 65 years ago. The founder of the Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art discovered the paintings’ connection to World War II plunder while doing research for two books. Robert Edsel said he came across a black and white photo shot in Germany in 1945 that showed a [...]