Martha Lufkin
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NY District Attorney promises amnesty for those who come forward while corporate executive Samuel Waksal enters a guilty plea for tax evasion
“The pillage of such items from Cambodia is an emergency”
The complaint demands a 17.5% finders fee for aiding the recovery of stolen artworks
Austria is not an adequate forum to resolve Nazi loot claim, says California federal court
In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis
Court says non-professional buyers do not have to check “provenance”
The museum has spent over $250,000 contesting the attempted subpoena of two paintings
In the interests of future exhibitions, the New York Court of Appeals rules that Schieles on loan to Museum of Modern Art must be returned to the lender then a federal magistrate seizes one of pictures
The paintings are claimed to have been stolen from their rightful owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria
The penalty of lying to customs
The US collector challenges Italy’s law
The Calder foundation cites fears concerning authenticity
"Avant-gardeartistes remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, "they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it"
A relation of the Polish painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski, who died in 1942, has asked Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, to hand over seven Polish paintings and four tapestries, but the Jesuit Institution says the objects properly belong to it
Montreal Museum maintains they bought the Vasari in good faith
Instead of raising hopes that they might deal a decisive slap in the face to Congressional limits on artistic expression, the justices gave no clear indication of where they were heading in the case
It’s not a crime to sell a fake—unknowingly