The art market flourished under the Occupation.
Relying on a noria of international actors, it was nourished by the thousands of goods - works of art, but also books or silverware - resulting from Jewish confiscations and spoliations.
Eighty years after these years of abuses, the National Institute of Art History (Inha) has just posted a considerable amount of information on this more than murky market.
Taking the form of a directory, it offers 200 biographical articles (a number destined to grow), reconstructing the trajectories of art dealers, gallery owners, brokers, experts and intermediaries, antique dealers, auctioneers, transporters, photographers, historians of art, museum staff.
Not to mention artists, collectors or even art lovers.
Crossing of sources
These “portraits” refer to 830 documentary records: thanks to them, we visualize the very complex networks through which the works looted, sometimes sold, resold or exchanged,
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