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Research into artworks is ever-evolving as resources and archives become available. Provenance research at the AGO is overseen by the museum’s Provenance, Repatriation and Restitution Committee, made up of employees from various departments.
The Art Gallery of Ontario ( AGO; French: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West.
The AGO maintains a comprehensive collection of Contemporary art spanning from 1960 to the present, reflecting global developments in artistic practice across all media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, projection art and installation art.
Jul 29, 2015 · The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has 46 paintings and sculptures with what curators call “a gap in provenance,” meaning the history of ownership, in this case between 1933 and 1945, has disappeared.
- Lila Sarick
Jun 26, 2013 · Should galleries which held the work on consignment be listed? Does a seller have potential liability if the provenance provided to the buyer turns out to be inaccurate in any material respect?
Dec 15, 2000 · The story follows on the heels of a decision made by the National Gallery of Canada last week to post 106 works of art which have gaps in their histories, or provenance, from the years 1933 and 1945, the period when many works of art were stolen from Jewish families by the reigning Nazis.
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The AGO is committed to investigating the provenance of works in its permanent collection, particularly as it pertains the ownership history of European painting and sculpture during the 1933–45 period.
