As you prepare to showcase your million-dollar painting in your multi-million-dollar home, you might consider taking advantage of a tool the art world has recently borrowed from the real estate industry: title insurance.

The number of ownership disputes over fine art has risen during the past two decades, mainly as a result of the hunt for art looted by Nazis from Jewish families during the Holocaust. Disagreements over ownership also result from contemporary theft, along with more run-of-the-mill cases of liens, bankruptcies and estate issues.