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.

No, the courts have not cleared the way for contemporary stained-glass windows at Notre-Dame

Non, la justice n'a pas laissé la voie libre aux vitraux contemporains de Notre-Dame

The article clarifies that legal challenges against installing contemporary stained-glass windows in Notre-Dame Cathedral are still ongoing, contrary to misleading headlines. Two judicial procedures remain active: an appeal by the heritage association Sites & Monuments after losing a first-instance ruling on procedural grounds, and a separate case contesting the legitimacy of the works themselves. Although an emergency injunction was denied because the judge found no urgency, the core legal arguments—that replacing Viollet-le-Duc's windows is not conservation or restoration—remain strong. The author warns that if the windows are installed before the appeals are resolved, they may later have to be removed at great expense.