The Independent profiles “art detective” Arthur Brand, who recently tracked down Salvador Dali and Tamara de Lempicka works thought to have been destroyed by thieves. “What I do with my company is we advise collectors to prevent them from buying forgeries,” Brand says. “That’s about 70 per cent of my work. The rest of the time we work with Jewish families to recover works from their collections stolen by the Nazis. But a small part of our work is recoveries of thefts, and these are the things that hit the headlines, these huge cases.”
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