To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2497 | antiquestradegazette.com | 19 June 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY
[email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art London charity is beneficiary of restituted art A sight loss charity in London has benefited from a surprise windfall after pictures restituted to the estate of a benefactor were sold at auction in Vienna. Four decades ago, the Vision Foundation (then named the Greater London Fund for the Blind) received a bequest of the estate of Irma Löwenstein Austin (c.1892-1976) when she died without an heir. More recently, the charity discovered that pictures she and her husband had sold under duress in Vienna in 1938 were in museums in Munich, Dortmund and Berlin. Small in size but certainly packing a punch, a three-lot sale of collectables The restitution process that began in 2018 raised almost $28m ($32.1m including premium) at Sotheby’s New York. was concluded last year. On June 7, The Compassionate Child (The Top left: the 1933 Double Eagle 20-dollar coin surpassed a $10m-15m Beggar) by Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg estimate and sold at $16.75m (£11.88m), an auction record for any coin.