Rethinking Provenance Research

Fuhrmeister, Christian; Hopp, Meike

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“…Summing up and bearing in mind ORION's designation, its aim is the study of art collectors and collections in Portugal. Although provenance research is in fact promoted, the project is art history oriented, and this feature shifts the way it faces other provenance projects [5].…”

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ORION—Art Collections and Collectors in Portugal

Mariz

Carvalho

Cabral³

et al. 2019

Heritage

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ORION is a digital art history research-oriented project focused on the study of art collections and collectors in Portugal, supported on a relational database management system. Besides the obvious advantage of organizing and systematizing an enormous amount of information, promoting its analysis, this database was specifically designed to highlight the relationships between data. Its relational capacity is not only one of the most relevant features of ORION, but a differentiating quality, one step forward in comparison to other international databases and studies that use digital methodologies. This article discusses the methods and the advantages of using ORION in research related to the history of collecting, art markets and provenance of art objects in Portugal, where it is the very first time that an approach such as this is intended, looking for a systematization of data that paves the way to the emergence of new research questions. Furthermore, and because ORION aims to share the data and knowledge with other projects, institutions and researchers, the database uses different international standards, such as data structure (CIDOC-OIC and Getty-CDWA), controlled vocabulary (Iconclass, Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)) and communication and exchange of information (CIDOC-CRM).

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ORION—Art Collections and Collectors in Portugal

Mariz

Carvalho

Cabral³

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Heritage

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“…Other objects such as books, furniture, photographs, or prints pose their own challenges and problems. 51 Finding the transfer of ownership documentation is often complicated, challenging, and time-and resource-intensive. Bills of sale, contracts, wills, receipts, and other primary resources such as records or inventory books may not have been produced at the time or may have been destroyed (on purpose or through acts of war or nature), lost, or are inconclusive.…”

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Plunder and Provenance: Using Restitution to Correct a Market Defect

Keim¹

2023

JLA

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The secondary art market is experiencing a market failure caused by Nazi-looted art without legal title. Legal and market responses are inadequate and create illiquidity. The prevailing methodology entrenches existing inefficiencies by not utilizing the potential to rehabilitate Nazi-looted art. Economic research does not address Nazi-looted art, and the legal, ethical, and moral discussions are not considering the economic effect of Nazi-looted art on the market. Existing proposals lack a distributive aspect and are inefficient as they remain anchored in the bilateral structure of current possessor versus original owner and a zero-sum framework. This Article closes the existing gap in the literature and recommends compensated restitution as a market solution to the toxic asset of Nazi-looted art. The Article’s central contribution to the restitution debate is the proposed creation of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Restitution Fund (HEAR Fund), which removes Nazi-looted art from the market and increases liquidity through restitution. The HEAR Fund captures and utilizes currently ignored private information, allowing it to contribute to social utility. Uncertainty is eliminated, and the artwork reenters the market with legal title. The Fund has two functions: a database and efficient information infrastructure for provenance research and acquiring works for restitution. It creates an efficient solution to the Nazi-looted art problem by increasing the utility of all art market actors and implements the long-standing executive policy of the United States government on Nazi-looted art bringing justice to the victims of Nazi dispossession. Restitution is structuralized by treating comparable situations equally, adding fairness and justice to the process, and compensation ensures the participation of current possessors.

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“… 8. Christian Fuhrmeister and Meike Hopp, “Rethinking Provenance Research,” Getty Research Journal , 11 (January 2019): 213–31; Smithsonian, “German /American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP), 2017-2019 | Smithsonian Institution,” June 8, 2021, available at: https://www.si.edu/events/prep; Yeide, The AAM Guide to Provenance Research . …”

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More Than “A Room of Antiquities” at the Global Museum: Constructing New Meanings Through the Provenance Research of an Ancient Egyptian Legacy Collection

Jiménez

Fogarty

Luby

2022

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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Non-systematically excavated archaeological legacy collections of antiquities are often undervalued or overlooked by museums because of their unknown provenience and questionable or problematic provenance. This article describes how extensive research into the provenance of an ancient Egyptian legacy collection purchased in Egypt in 1884 by Adolph Sutro that is now stewarded by the Global Museum at San Francisco State University exposes a new expansive research potential for the collection, enabling Museum Studies students and faculty and museum staff to construct innovative interpretive frameworks through integrated Museum Studies curriculum, educational public programming, and exhibitions of the collection in the museum. This case study underscores the importance of provenance research for contextualizing legacy collections and illustrates how this research can be a catalyst for important discussions of the antiquities trade, colonial collecting practices, public educational significance, and ethical collection stewardship, curation, and display.

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Rethinking Provenance Research

Cited by 6 publications

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ORION—Art Collections and Collectors in Portugal

ORION—Art Collections and Collectors in Portugal

Plunder and Provenance: Using Restitution to Correct a Market Defect

More Than “A Room of Antiquities” at the Global Museum: Constructing New Meanings Through the Provenance Research of an Ancient Egyptian Legacy Collection

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