Met taps Sotheby’s executive to lead new provenance research team

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Met taps Sotheby’s executive to lead new provenance research team

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has named an executive from one of the world’s biggest auction houses as its new head of provenance research following intense scrutiny over the murky origins of hundreds of works in its collection. Lucian Simmons will lead a newly created team tasked with scouring the Met’s collection, and vetting potential acquisitions, to identify cultural property and objects that may have Nazi-era provenance. He will be…