In the final months before the outbreak of World War II, the renowned French painter Henri Matisse completed Daisies.

The V&A Research Institute, the National Art Library and Archives is committed to provenance research and to exploring the lives of all the objects in our care. We are delighted to announce a conferen...

UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. Tristram Hunt argues that it’s time for politicians to give them greater autonomy over their collections

“There is no one single answer for how African art gets to Iowa. Art travels in very complex ways,” Cory Gundlach, curator of African art at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, said. This co...

It is not usually the case that an artist has to hide while attempting to draw a portrait.

It is not usually the case that an artist has to hide while attempting to draw a portrait.

The V&A Research Institute in collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London. Renowned Memory Studies scholar Michael Rothberg explores histories of colonial and Nazi violence, and questions of rem...

When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged...

As scrutiny increases of art stolen by Nazis or looted from archaeological sites, the museum has expanded its provenance team and hired an expert researcher from London.

Ghana marks 100 years since the return of a monarch exiled in Seychelles during the colonial era.

In 1916 Lord Curzon inherited his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall, and set about planning its renovation. Part of this work was the creation of a new museum in which to display his collection of ‘Ea...

This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie...

In January 2023, I joined the provenance research team at the Art Institute, tasked with studying objects in the collection from Southeast Asia.

To provide opportunities for early-career training for PhD students, the V&A has made available a range of doctoral placements based in collections departments, archives, the National Art Library, res...

When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged...

Researching the provenance V&A's South Asian Collection

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