{"id":2093,"date":"2024-04-03T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2024-04-03T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:21:37","slug":"french-authorities-seize-russian-avant-garde-paintings-suspected-stolen-from-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/french-authorities-seize-russian-avant-garde-paintings-suspected-stolen-from-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"French Authorities Seize Russian Avant-Garde Paintings Suspected Stolen from Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">French court bailiffs seized more than 100 avant-garde works from an art laboratory in Paris in February, following suspicion that they had been stolen from a private collector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">As first reported by\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Art Newspaper<\/em>, the international law firm Dentons in Frankfurt claims that the works belong to its client,\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_uthman-khatib\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"uthman-khatib\">Uthman Khatib<\/a>, a businessman and investor of Palestinian origin living in Israel. The collection is estimated to be worth more than \u20ac100 million ($1.08 million), and includes paintings attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Natalia Goncharova. The collector claims the paintings were stolen from a storage facility he rented in Wiesbaden, Germany, in December 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\" class=\"admz \">\n<div class=\"adma boomerang \" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"1\">\n<div class=\"pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text\" data-priority=\"10\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Last year, bailiffs seized a collection of works from a Frankfurt storage facility that Khatib also said was his. Khatib\u2019s lawyer did not give an exact number to the works recovered, saying in a statement to the\u00a0<em>Art Newspaper\u00a0<\/em>that they counted \u201cseveral hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Khatib\u2019s son,\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_castro-ben-leon-lawrence-jayyusi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"castro-ben-leon-lawrence-jayyusi\">Castro Ben Leon Lawrence Jayyusi<\/a>, heads the campaign to regain roughly 900 total works of art lost worldwide. Some of the works from the family collection, Jayyusi claims, were sold within the last year at auctions in Israel, France, and Monaco. His efforts are funded by the Prague-based litigation financier, LitFin Capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Khatib purchased 871 works from a collection of paintings numbering 1,800 in 2015, from\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_itzhak-zarug\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" data-tag=\"itzhak-zarug\">Itzhak Zarug<\/a>, an Israeli art dealer who operated a gallery in Wiesbaden. Suspected to be forgeries, the Wiesbaden public prosecutor\u2019s office seized the works upon their acquisition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Though Zarug was in prison on suspicion of leading a forgery ring, a Wiesbaden court dropped the forgery and criminal conspiracy charges against him in 2018. Zarug and a colleague, however, were convicted of lesser charges for falsifying provenance and selling a forged work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">In 2019 authorities returned the collection to Zarug, which also included the portion owned by Khatib. The art was subsequently taken from Khatib\u2019s storage facility in Wiesbaden, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Jayyusi claims to know the thief and had attempted to negotiate the collection\u2019s return; his appeals unheeded, he took legal action. By 2022, none of the works had been recovered and they reportedly began circulating at auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">In 2023 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Frankfurt<\/a> higher regional court ruled that bailiffs could remove Khatib\u2019s works from a storage facility. The Khatib family\u2019s legal team has already contacted two auction houses in France and Israel, respectively, which are believed to have possessed pieces from the lost collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cWe will follow the perpetrators around the world,\u201d Jayyusi told the\u00a0<em>AN<\/em>. \u201cWe will continue to recover our property and encourage anyone who is considering buying Russian avant-garde work to diligently check its provenance and make sure it is not a stolen piece belonging to our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French court bailiffs seized more than 100 avant-garde works from an art laboratory in Paris in February, following suspicion that they had been stolen from a private collector. As first reported by\u00a0the\u00a0Art Newspaper, the international law firm Dentons in Frankfurt claims that the works belong to its client,\u00a0Uthman Khatib, a businessman and investor of Palestinian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>French Authorities Seize Russian Avant-Garde Paintings Suspected Stolen from Collector - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"French court bailiffs seized more than 100 avant-garde works from an art laboratory in Paris in February, following suspicion that they had been stolen from a private collector.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/french-authorities-seize-russian-avant-garde-paintings-suspected-stolen-from-collector\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French Authorities Seize Russian Avant-Garde Paintings Suspected Stolen from Collector - 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