IFARreports

Reproductions to scale of ancient bronzes from Palace Museum raise potential problems for unwary collectors

Franklin Feldman and Stephen E. Weil’s two-volume Art Law, Rights and Liabilities of Creators and Collectors, is published. It updates their 1974 Art Works: Law, Policy, Practice.

Matisse Girl in White stolen from Konstmuseum in Göteborg, Sweden, in May 1973.

Paintings, Pastels, Mixed Media Works, Watercolors: Hundertwasser. Photographs: El Lissitzky. Oriental Art, Chinese: Han Dynasty tomb figure; T'ang Dynasty tomb horse.

Belgian police recover several works.

New York: Rare Chinese export porcelain figure of the Ch’ien Lung period (1736-95). Los Angeles: Veraguas gold frog. France: Two African sculptures, stolen in 1983. Sheffield, Massachusetts: Staigg portraits and other antiques.