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Mexico’s art community calls for greater transparency in management of treasured collection

Over 350 Mexican cultural professionals have signed an open letter demanding greater transparency from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) regarding the management and export of the Gelman Collection. The collection, recently acquired by the Zambrano family and rebranded as the Gelman Santander Collection, includes 18 works by Frida Kahlo and other major 20th-century Mexican artists, with 30 pieces designated as national artistic monuments requiring state oversight.

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Heir says Cezanne watercolour in Basel show was lost due to Nazi persecution

A watercolor by Paul Cézanne (1888) shown at the Fondation Beyeler's recent exhibition once belonged to Gustav Schweitzer, a Jewish businessman who fled Berlin in 1935. Provenance researcher Willi Korte discovered documents in Basel's public archives showing Schweitzer loaned the work to the Kunsthalle Basel for a 1936 exhibition. Correspondence continued until 1939, when the work was returned to Schweitzer's secretary. How Schweitzer lost ownership remains unknown, but Korte says it was either sold under duress or looted in Nazi-occupied territory. The Fondation Beyeler has stated it will return the work to its current lender, an unnamed private collector based in the US.

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Open Letter on the Imminent Departure of the Gelman Collection from Mexico

An open letter signed by hundreds of Mexican artists and cultural figures warns that the core of the renowned Gelman Collection, including eleven Frida Kahlo paintings declared national monuments, is at risk of permanent export from Mexico. The letter alleges that Banco Santander's new Faro Santander museum, through an agreement with collector Marcelo Zambrano, is misinterpreting Mexico's strict heritage laws to justify a "dynamic" but effectively permanent display abroad, which would violate the legal prohibition on the permanent export of Kahlo's work.

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