French Recovery of Stolen Russian Avant-Garde paintings

➡️ Read More: French officials seized over 100 Russian avant-garde artworks, suspected of being stolen, in a Paris art lab. The collection, including pieces by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Goncharova, belonged to Uthman Khatib, an investor living in Israel, represented by a Dentons lawyer in Frankfurt. Estimated at over €100m, these artworks were originally stolen from Khatib’s storage in Germany in 2019. The Paris seizure follows a previous one in Frankfurt, part of the family’s broader effort to recover about 900 works. Khatib’s son, supported by LitFin, is leading this pursuit, emphasizing the importance of provenance verification for Russian avant-garde art buyers, given the market’s forgery issues. The case highlights the challenges in the Russian avant-garde art market, including a significant forgery problem.