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Sale of ‘Polish king’s sword’ sparks fury after being put up for auction in Germany

Posting photos of the weapon on its website, Berlin auction house Carsten Zeige said that the sword “probably belonged to Sigismund III Vasa and came from a pre-war Polish collection.” zeige.com

Posting photos of the weapon on its website, Berlin auction house Carsten Zeige said that the sword “probably belonged to Sigismund III Vasa and came from a pre-war Polish collection.”

German auctioneer halts sale of painting stolen from Polish museum

A German auction house has suspended the sale of a painting stolen from a Warsaw museum following protests from Poland.

Stolen painting should never have been sold says foreign minister

Poland’s foreign minister has said that the sale in Germany of a painting stolen from Warsaw’s National Museum should never have taken place.

Stolen Polish artwork sold in Germany

A Polish painting stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw has been sold at a Berlin auction house despite Polish requests that be withdrawn from the sale.

Armed cops raid Warsaw auction house to seize ‘controversial’ painting – but leave empty-handed

Expected to fetch between PLN 14 and PLN 22 million, which would have made it the most expensive artwork sold in Poland, the painting by Jacek Malczewski was being prepared for auction at the DESA Unicum auction house when police and staff from the National Museum arrived.

Matejko painting goes for whopping €1 million at auction

The staggering amount is one of the highest prices ever fetched at an art auction in Poland.

Extraordinary photo collection of Polish Carpathian Lancers up for auction

The photos of the legendary unit which fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino belonged to Captain Wincenty Tomaszewski, an officer of the Carpathian Lancers who after the war settled in Grimsby, UK. 

Warsaw’s Kulczyk Foundation buys Skłodowska-Curie’s French holiday home

Put on the market in 2021 for €790,000, the picturesque mansion in Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse 35 km from Paris, will now be renovated and turned into a base for the House of Sisterhood aimed at uniting Ukrainian and Polish women in their efforts to help women and children fleeing war.

Portrait by ‘megastar’ Polish artist sells for staggering $1.5mln at US auction

Comfortably surpassing its original valuation, the painting Portrait of a Lady (After Louis Leopold Boilly) by Ewa Juszkiewicz went under the hammer alongside works by such luminaries as Banksy, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool and Gerhard Richter. The auction held by the New York branch of the globally renowned Christie’s has served to underline Juszkiewicz’s soaring stock.

Artists unite for unique auction to raise money for Ukraine

Involving some of the biggest names in Polish art, an online auction organized by Café Bergson in Oświęcim is underway to raise funds to finance language courses for Ukrainian refugees.

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The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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