Donations and purchases at the J. Paul Getty Museum

My latest essay for the Journal of Art Crime looks at the pattern of donations of figure-decorated pot fragments to the J. Paul Getty Museum by Werner Nussberger. Some 6000 pieces were donated to the Getty in 1981. The study identifies how additional pieces from the same pots were purchased from Galerie Nefer in 1985 and 1986. Other handlers of pot fragments are identified. 

This pattern raises issues about how and when the pot fragments were dispersed before they made their way to the Getty. 

Gill, D. W. J. 2020. "Context matters: the fragmentary gifts of Werner Nussberger." Journal of Art Crime 24: 57-60.