I was lying on my bed, scrolling mindlessly through Instagram, when a photo of a bedroom – white walls, large patterned rug, framed print of Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude II on the wall – slid ...

Sotheby’s is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring.

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized ...