Online Seminar “C.T. Loo Revisited” on 3 December 2020: Provenance Research on the Asian Art Trade of the 20th Century - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

The histories of collecting and the art market are essential to advancing provenance research. Art dealers play an eminent role in cultivating new tastes, desires, and market trends. Provenance research, therefore, is more than an effort to document an object’s different owners; provenance research includes the work of uncovering the mechanisms behind translocations, understanding the transformation of material culture, and exploring the production of knowledge within different worlds and...