{"id":47604,"date":"2023-05-31T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=47604"},"modified":"2023-05-31T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T18:37:12","slug":"artcurial-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/05\/artcurial-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Artcurial Altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47605\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4217_10738034_0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47605\" class=\"wp-image-47605\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4217_10738034_0-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"A Baroque neoclassical painting of Narcissus gazing at his own reflection in a pond, with other figures looking on. Sold by Artcurial to Patrick Matthiesen in 2022, and the subject of the spat between the two.\" width=\"333\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4217_10738034_0-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4217_10738034_0-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4217_10738034_0.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Narcissus<\/em> by Laurent de la Hyre<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A London-based art dealer has gotten into a bit of a spat with the French auction house Artcurial. Patrick Matthiesen owns the Matthiesen Gallery, just around the block from St. James\u2019s Square in London, specializing primarily in Old Master paintings. Recently, Matthiesen purchased the painting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Narcissus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which specialists have recently reattributed to Laurent de la Hyre, a French Baroque painter and a leader of the seventeenth-century neo-classical French style now known as Atticism. Matthiesen purchased the painting through Artcurial on November 9, 2022, for \u20ac700K (or $705.6K) despite the auction house having very little provenance information on the painting. The only information about its previous owners was that it sold at Christie\u2019s in 1929. Though he already bought the work, Matthiesen has refused to export it to Britain without first taking every precaution under anti-money laundering legislation. The gallery began independently investigating the work\u2019s provenance because, according to Matthiesen, Artcurial refused to provide that information. \u201cWe have to know who the seller is, and, if they are an agent, to find the ultimate beneficiary. Similar rules apply in America and there is no way we could sell the painting in the US with no information on its whereabouts for almost a century.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthiesen also claims Artcurial gave him different answers to the same question. When he asked who the painting\u2019s most recent seller had been, auction house staff told him at one time that it came from a Belgian family and then another time that it came from a British company. He also noticed an inscription on the frame reading \u201cscuola francesa\u201d, or French School in Italian, indicating that the painting may have been in Italy at one point. After requesting payment twice, Artcurial canceled the sale at the seller\u2019s request. Matthiesen has reported the incident to the relevant agencies in both France and Britain. Artcurial states that it provided as much information as possible, and it has the right to protect the anonymity of its clients. It has since described Matthiesen&#8217;s claims as \u201cerroneous, if not defamatory\u201d. Matthiesen claims that this is not the first time that his gallery has had to perform its own research on paintings to make up for French auction houses\u2019 lack of transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London-based art dealer has gotten into a bit of a spat with the French auction house Artcurial. Patrick Matthiesen owns the Matthiesen Gallery, just around the block from St. James\u2019s Square in London, specializing primarily in Old Master paintings. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/05\/artcurial-altercation\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[524,345,49,207,15,483,58,11,9],"class_list":["post-47604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-17th-century","tag-17th-century-art","tag-auction","tag-auction-news","tag-comments-on-the-art-market","tag-france","tag-old-masters","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Artcurial Altercation - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A London art dealer has gotten into a bit of a spat with the French auction house Artcurial over a painting&#039;s provenance.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/05\/artcurial-altercation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artcurial Altercation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A London art dealer has gotten into a bit of a spat with the French auction house Artcurial over a painting&#039;s provenance.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/05\/artcurial-altercation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-31T18:37:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4217_10738034_0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"840\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"611\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/artcurial-altercation\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/artcurial-altercation\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Artcurial Altercation\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-31T18:37:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/artcurial-altercation\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":387,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/artcurial-altercation\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/4217_10738034_0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"17th century\",\"17th Century Art\",\"auction\",\"Auction News\",\"Comments on the Art Market\",\"france\",\"Old Masters\",\"Rehs Contemporary - Art World News\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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