Stolen Art Alert

Story of how IFAR publicity plays a role in recovering five Rembrandt etchings, allegedly stolen by Dr. Thomas Cruz (see SAA, November 1983)

Hungary: Renaissance paintings stolen from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, in Hungary’s largest art theft. Works by Raphael (Esterhazy Madonna), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Tintoretto. Netherlands: Kaiser Wilhelm II's personal collection. Florida: Whistler watercolor and etching, Russian enamel and silver objets d'art, from an office building in Sarasota. New York: Paintings and Silas Kopf wooden boxes, etc., from parked vehicles.

Religious sculptures; Joseph Cornell, Box Construction, recovered from Dr. Frank Waxman’s apartment.

Australia: 72 works from Melbourne gallery, stolen April, 1979. Czechoslovakia: Two important early Picassos (Nue Assise and Cotelette). Spain: Dirk Bouts altarpiece – all but three of the panels.

Gerald Kaplan, also known as Robert Whitney or posing as owner of Brodney Gallery, pleads guilty to buying art with bogus checks (see SAA, March/April 1983).