United States v. Portrait of Wally, 105 F. Supp. 2d 208 (S.D.N.Y. July 19, 2000); 2000 WL 1890403 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 28, 2000); 2002 WL 553532 (S.D.N.Y. 2002); 663 F. Supp. 2d 232 (S.D.N.Y. 2009).
Précis
While on loan from the Leopold Museum in Austria to an exhibit in New York in 1997, the painting Portrait of Wally (“Wally”) by Egon Schiele was seized by the U.S. government and prevented from returning to Austria. The government alleged that the work had been stolen during the Nazi Era from Lea Bondi Jaray and was thus subject to seizure under the National Stolen Property Act (NSPA), a federal statute governing . . . .
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