More information on the story in The Art Newspaper.
The Austrian town of Linz may have to pay over €8 million to the family of artist and collector Olga Jäger. In 1951 Jäger had lent a Klimt drawing and three works by Egon Schieler to the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz (which later became the Lentos Kunstmuseum) however in 2006 when Jäger’s hiers came to collect the works, they could not be found. The appeal filed by the Austrian city has been rejected. More on artnet News.
There is a new Financial Director at Sotheby’s. Following the departure of Dennis M. Weibling in December, the auction house has now taken on the services of Michael Goss, graduate of Harvard, Goss was formerly the Executive Director of Bain Capital. Sotheby’s market info on Market Watch.
