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Provenance guide IFAR Home Page www ifar org Provenance Guide Introduction Provenance research was once the province of art scholars dealing primarily with issues of attribution and authenticity But recent legal claims by heirs of Holocaust victims whose

IFAR Home Page www ifar org Provenance Guide Introduction Provenance research was once the province of art scholars dealing primarily with issues of attribution and authenticity But recent legal claims by heirs of Holocaust victims whose art works were looted or otherwise misappropriated by the Nazis and claims by foreign ??source ? countries for objects they believe were exported in violation of patrimony or export laws have raised awareness of the need for provenance research in regard to due diligence in acquiring works of art Provenance research is often painstaking and not easy to do and not every work has a discoverable provenance What Is Provenance I sTohme ewtoimrdesp roinvceonrarencctely duesriev ?dessfyrnoomnythmeoFurselyncwhithpr ??opvreonviernmieenacn Although the term is archaeological term n referring to an artifact ? s excavation site or ?ndspot whereas the provenance of a work of art is a te historical record of its ownership A work ? s provenance comprises far more than its pedigree r however it is also an account of changing artistic tastes and collecting priorities a record of social n and political alliances and an indicator of economic and market conditions in uencing the sale or at transfer of the work of art It also provides valuable information about the attribution of an object fo io Provenance research is by nature interdisciplinary While it generally begins with art historical r n resources provenance research often leads to other historical or genealogical materials This A a interdisciplinary nature is particularly evident in World War II-Era provenance research rt l Fo What information should one look for when conducting provenance research An ideal provenance R u provides a documentary record of owners ? names dates of ownership methods of transference IF es n i e inheritance or sale through a dealer or auction and locations where the work was kept from the e d time of its creation by the artist until the present day Unfortunately such complete unbroken AR ar at records of ownership are rare and most works of art contain gaps in provenance indeed it is more ch ion common for an object to have an incomplete ownership history than a complete one Essentially a kind of detective work provenance research must be approached with creativity persistence attention to detail and the ability to think outside of the box And like detective work provenance research can be di ?cult and time-consuming Often the di ?culties researchers encounter involve the state of extant records Many archives have su ?ered damage destruction or dispersal due to wars or natural disasters and the records of smaller or short-lived galleries have not always been preserved Moreover private owners may not have saved purchase records particularly for works of lesser monetary value and sometimes no records of transfer were created in the ?rst place Even those records that do exist may not be reliable they may provide unclear inadequate con icting or incorrect information Sometimes records document collections as a whole rather than individual items within it Thus