# Tracking Down 424 Nazi-Looted Artworks Through Public Appeal and Restitution **Artwork**: **Artist**: Arnaud Quercy **Asset**: IDS-RNI0077 **Serial**: NAN-RDG000140 This is a news report about a museum's public-appeal campaign to recover Nazi-looted physical artworks through legal restitution and eyewitness identification, not about the transmission, diffraction, or creative reception of an idea across ouvertures — the ideamorphism framework's terms (recognition vs. creation, invariant persistence, ouverture) have no real object to grip in a story governed by provenance research, wartime looting history, and property law. ## Context ### Declined — `no-purchase` [@source] ### Propositional grid [@p31] > **Read this grid.** “Not evaluated” does **not** mean the source has nothing to say about that proposition. It means **the reading did not instruct it**. That is not a result, and it counts in no denominator. A silence, by contrast, is a finding: the reading touched the proposition without concluding, or noted its absence itself. **Not evaluated (37)** — P1, P2, P3, P3a, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11, P12, P13, P14, P14a, P14b, P15, P16, P16a, P17, P18, P18a, P19, P19a, P20, P21, P22, P23, P24, P25, P26, P27, P28, P29, P30, P31 --- *Overall verdict: **DECLINED:no-purchase** — taxonomy of the August 2026 pass, predating the move to relational verdicts. Kept as metadata: the gap between the two forms is data, not residue. This reading’s judgement is in the grid above.* Reading of 2026-07-23 · model `claude-sonnet-5` · source 8,695 chars · 1 attempt(s) --- ### First pass — kept as written *Reading produced by the T50 RSS pass, before the boundary lens. It is reproduced UNCORRECTED. Keeping it is the point: without it, a changed title is just a changed title — with it, what the second pass refused becomes legible.* **Title it carried :** « Nazi Looting and the Broken Chain of Intentional Invariants » > Nazi looting severs the codex. Each stolen artwork carries an intentional invariant — the artist's systematic constraints, the logic of why *these* forms, *these* colors, according to what internal coherence. When a painting vanishes into private hands or destruction, that invariant becomes orphaned: the work still exists as physical material (the physical invariant holds), but the *dialogue* between emitter and receiver is interrupted. The receiver cannot diffract through the artist's ouverture because the chain of transmission is broken. The museum's 'Wanted' campaign is not merely about restitution — it is about restoring the *possibility of diffraction*. A looted work in hiding cannot generate creation in any receiver. The campaign treats recovery as an epistemic act: recovering the work means recovering the conditions under which its intentional invariant can again activate in dialogue. This is why the loss is not merely material — it is a loss of generative capacity itself. T50 RSS assessment · 2026-07-23 · remplacée par `boundary-lens-2026-08`