Stolen Art Alert

Story on the trials of Michael Filides, who receives probation, a fine and community service for being a fence for the “Social Register Burglaries”

Thief hits Soho galleries and suspect, Louis Hillen of Guttenberg, New Jersey, arrested by Detective Tom Moscardini. Works recovered.

Anthony J. Civitano in plea-bargain.

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

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

Appeal of Filides’ conviction is considered.

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

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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.

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.

Program forevents, February-May, 1985.

The director of the National Gallery of Canada writes in appreciation of IFAR’s assistance in returning two stolen Rembrandt etchings.

Bissold, Morgenstern paintings.

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