Stolen Art Alert

Volume 5, No. 10

December 1984

Art Dealer Convicted
— Lynn Stowell Pearson
Story on the trials of Michael Filides, who receives probation, a fine and community service for being a fence for the “Social Register Burglaries”

Thefts In This Issue: New York
— Lynn Stowell Pearson
Thief hits Soho galleries and suspect, Louis Hillen of Guttenberg, New Jersey, arrested by Detective Tom Moscardini. Works recovered.

Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty
Anthony J. Civitano in plea-bargain.

Patterson Pleads Guilty
Leonardo Patterson gets probation with fine for wire fraud for attempted sale of a purported Maya fresco in Boston (see SAA June 1984).

Announcement
UNESCO publishes compendium of legislative texts entitled, The Protection of Movable Cultural Property, I, 1984.

Statement of Morris M. Goldings, Esq.: Attorney for Michael Filides
Appeal of Filides’ conviction is considered.

Reminder of Past Losses
Pine Bush, New York: Verboeckhoven painting, stolen in 1982. Paris, France: Foujita Woman and Child.

1984 Art Theft Statistics
Statistics

Important Thefts Reported in 1984
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Portrait of Miss Maria Teresa de Apodaca de Sesma, and El Greco, Portrait of a Youth, Sanchez Coello, Portrait of Philip II, Murillo, St. Catherine, Ribera, Jonah and the Whale, from Museo Municipal Estevez Santa Fé, Argentina; Picasso, Silhouette de femme, from Max G. Bollag gallery, Zurich; Berenike II, Wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, from a New York City gallery; Amasis Painter, Black-figure Lekythos, from the Kerameikos Museum, Athens, Greece; late Gothic silver pendant, 15th-century Book of Hours, gold ring, and rosary, from Basel Historical Museum; Mandala, Nepalese Cremation Scene, and other Nepalese and Tibetan art, from the home of Dr. Jane Werner, New York.

Important Recoveries Reported in 1984
Paul de Lamerie, George II Oval-Shaped Bread Baskets, among collection of silver, from Woburn Abbey; Il Guercino, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, from Benazzo di Cento, Italy; François Garnier, Coupe de fraises et groseilles, and two other paintings, from Long Island, N.Y., warehouse; Amedeo Modigliani, Jeune fille, from Rye, England; Jan Brueghel, Paysage avec une rivière, from Ystad, Sweden; van Gogh, Self-Portrait, among six works recovered from the National Gallery, Oslo.

IFAR Evenings 1984-85 Series
Program forevents, February-May, 1985.

Letter to the Editor
— Joseph Martin
The director of the National Gallery of Canada writes in appreciation of IFAR’s assistance in returning two stolen Rembrandt etchings.

Recoveries
Bissold, Morgenstern paintings.

1984 Cumulative Index.
Index