Check with a stolen art database;
Ask about the provenance, then actively check it;
Look at the back of works, outside of their frames;
Ask about forensic testing;
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Recently my colleague Anne Igelbrink shared the following enticing new information that has come to light regarding the largest unsolved art heist in history:
"I vividly remember waking up as a...