At Christie's, Dugot puts the growing number of restitution cases partly down to new books about stolen art, but also to films and news reports about successful claims.
The number of legal claims against Austrian and German art galleries and museums has been rising every year, according to Monica Dugot, the global director of restitution at the auction house, and that was set to continue, despite the advanced age of many Jewish survivors.
Christies, Dugot said, was now continually educating staff and clients on the handling of restitution claims.
Despite being behind the restitution of the grandchildren of so many of her fellow grandmothers, the white-haired, softly spoken woman who had endeared herself as a perennial hopeful for a Nobel Peace Prize for Argentina, and a worldwide symbol of peaceful women's activism, had not yet been able to find her own slain daughter's son.
Woman in Gold opens on 10 April ■ In November Christie's auctioned a 1910 Egon Schiele watercolour, Town on the Blue River, in conjunction with a looted art restitution agreement that compensated its former owner's heirs.
The prime minister's office said Abbott cited the US navy's shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988, saying it "had duly apologised and made appropriate restitution".
There, with the two QCs Geoffrey Robertson and Norman Palmer, both experts in cultural restitution, she will discuss how Greece can best pursue its claim to win back the treasures, widely seen as the high point of classical art, from the British Museum.
"The British adhere to international law," said Clooney who co-authored the report with Geoffrey Robertson and Norman Palmer, British QCs regarded as pre-eminent experts in cultural restitution.
Thirty years of war, including 18 years of communism, and a displaced population have rendered land titling in Cambodia merely vestigial.Mr Kut Mau says he had been granted two hectares under the restitution programme.
Relations between Vilnius and Warsaw have long been strained over issues such as the restitution of property confiscated under the Soviet regime and the refusal to allow the Polish alphabet on official documents.
