Restitution Follies: As the Turner Turns…and Returns

J.M.W. Turner, “Glaucus and Scylla,” Kimbell Art Museum (again)
O my prophetic soul!
In my post last June, As the Turner Turns, I wrote this about the Kimbell Art Museum’s restitution of its only work by that artist, which was found to have been seized from its World War II-era owners by the Nazis and sold at a 1943 auction of “Jewish property”:
Maybe, as often happens, the heirs will ultimately decide to sell the work, and the Kimbell will get another shot at it—but at a price greatly enhanced by the Kimbell’s own imprimatur.
Told you so! This just in from Christie’s:
“Glaucus and Scylla,” a magnificent oil on panel by J.M.W. Turner, had been restituted to the heirs of John and Anna Jaffé by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas last year. During the morning session at Christie’s Rockefeller Galleries, Richard Feigen successfully bid $6.42 million on the lot to buy it back for the Kimbell Museum.
Get that painting back up on your website, Mindy!