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J.M.W. Turner, Light and Color (Goethe's Theory)-the Morning After the Deluge-Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, and Shade and Darkness-The Evening of the Deluge, and Friedrich, Nebelschwaden; Fabergé, collection from Luton Hoo; Mather Brown, Portrait of Thomas Jefferson; George William Headley III, creations and collectibles from the Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY; Eighteenth century embroidery, Shepherd and Shepherdess, from Milwaukee Art Museum; 15 manuscripts from 14th and 15th-century Europe, eight 19th-century Arab manuscripts, and two 15th-century European books; Francesco di Antonio, St. John the Baptist and St. Anthony Abbot, panels from an altarpiece from a Tucson, AZ church; Pablo Picasso, Christ of Montmartre; five figures, a candlestick group, and a teapot with cover, all made by the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, were stolen from a London auction house exhibition gallery; Pieter Lastman, The Crucifixion of Christ

Edvard Munch, The Scream; Petrus Christus, Christ as the Man of Sorrows; Khmer, end of 12th century to beginning of 13th century, from temple in Angkor, Body of a Female Deity; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, folio of hand-painted engravings; Lippo Vanni, five illuminated manuscript pages from Book of Anthems; Pablo Picasso, Woman with Blue Collar; Vincent van Gogh, Seated Peasant Woman; Francesco Guardi, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore; pair of silver ecclesiastical flagons from St. Cuthbert's Church, Wells; Gabriel Metsu, Washerwoman.

A London dealer recognized the Gobelin tapestries stolen from the Institute of Fine Arts, where they had been on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1982. A rug dealer, innocent of any knowledge of the theft, offered them to him for sale.

Seven works by Picasso and one by Pascin were stolen from the Max Bollag Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland, in October.

Carter v. Helmsley-Spear upholds the 1990 Visual Arts Rights Act, which guarantees artists the rights of paternity and integrity, providing some protection for an artist's "non-economic ambitions."