Tag: Dorotheum

Stolen artwork arrives in Vienna

Post date November 4, 2011

By Rebecca Musgrave A valuable artwork has turned up in the Vienna Dorotheum, Austria, almost 10 years after it was stolen. The porcelain relief of Tsar Peter the Great, which was taken from the Ostankino Estate Museum in Moscow, Russia, arrived in the auction house from an unknown seller in France ready to be sold. […]

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Koloman Moser masterpiece disappeared en route to UK

General News

Post date January 4, 2011

A painting bought in an auction in Vienna for more than 100,000 Euros was stolen during transport to the United Kingdom, it has been reported.Viennese newspaper Heute reports today (Tues) that a self portrait by late Austrian artist Koloman Moser has been reported as missing. The painting was purchased by a London-based man for 116,200 […]

Tags auction, Dorotheum, Egon, Euros, Heute, London, Moser, painting, Schiele, Vienna