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Art Theft (Other than World War II and Cultural Property Looting)
Case Name | Date Ended |
Jurisdiction | Object in Dispute | Claims/ Legal Issues |
Decision/ Settlement |
Cantor v. Anderson | 1986 | Federal | Renoir drawing, Gabrielle Couchée à la Rose | Conversion | Work Recovered/Restitution |
Delocque-Fourcaud v. Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 2003 | Federal | 26 paintings from the Pushkin Museum | Title | Litigated, subsequently settled |
Erisoty v. Rizik | 2002 | Federal | Giaquinto painting: Winter | Replevin | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
Ichiyasu v. Christie, Manson & Woods International | 1986 | Federal | Picasso etching: La Femme au Tambourin | Theft | Dismissed |
In re "Paysage bords de Seine" | 2014 | Federal | Paysage bords de Seine, 1879 unsigned oil painting on linen by Renoir | Title | Court Ordered Restitution |
Kamat v. Kurtha | 2009 | Federal | Souza Painting | Laches | Settled |
Konowaloff v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2012 | Federal | Cézanne painting | Title | Dismissed |
Malanga v. Chamberlain | 2011 | State | Artwork made from 315 eight-inch square silkscreen panels depicting John Chamberlain's face | Conversion | Settled |
Naftzger v. American Numismatic Society | 1999 | State | Early American copper pennies | Replevin | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
O’Keeffe v. Snyder | 1980 | State | 3 O'Keeffe paintings | Replevin | Settled |
Porter v. Wertz | 1981 | State | Utrillo painting: Château de Lion-sur-Mer | Replevin | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
Sanchez v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | 2005 | Federal | Pre-Columbian gold plaque | Conversion | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
Society of California Pioneers v. Baker | 1996 | State | Gold quartz cane handle | Conversion | Settled |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell | 1991 | State | Chagall gouache: Le Marchand de Bestiaux | Demand and Refusal Rule | Confidential Settlement |
Solomon v. Cutler | 2012 | Federal | Norman Rockwell Painting: Russian Schoolroom | Replevin | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
United States v. Brugnara | 2015 | Federal | More than two dozen artworks were at issue | Fraud | Conviction |
United States v. DeCicco | 1970 | Federal | Fourteen paintings, including works by Cezanne, Gauguin, Goya, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso and Renoir, and two sculptures by Degas and Rodin | Theft | Remanded |
United States v. Kretske | 1955 | Federal | Four paintings, one of which is attributed to Mattia Preti | Theft | Remanded |
United States v. Kyriacou (Matthew Green case) | 2020 | Federal | Pablo Picasso, Personnages | Conspiracy | Conviction |
United States v. Marcuello Guzman | 2013 | Federal | Henri Matisse's "Odalisque in Red Pantaloons," 1925. | Possession of Stolen Property | Guilty Plea |
United States v. OneBeacon Insurance Group | 2008 | Federal | 3 Paintings - Hassam, Courbet & Hamilton | Title | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
United States v. O’Higgins | 1999 | Federal | Mozart half-page of music and Wagner manuscript and letters | Theft | Conviction |
United States v. Pritchard | 2004 | Federal | Confederate Civil War Uniform | Theft | Conviction |
United States v. Stern | 2010 | Federal | Nine Ancient Egyptian objects | Theft | Guilty Plea |
United States v. The Painting Known as "Hannibal"; In re 95 Works of Art from the Ferreira Collection | 2014 | Federal | Works returned to Brazil including Basquiat and Lichtenstein paintings, Moore sculpture. | Forfeiture | Seizure of Work |
United States v. The Painting Known as "Le Marché" | 2012 | Federal | Camille Pissarro's "Le Marché aux Poissons" | Forfeiture | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
United States v. Tobin | 1978 | Federal | Fake Remington: "Bronco Buster," 1895 | Trafficking in Stolen Property | Conviction |
United States v. Trupin | 2000 | Federal | Chagall painting Le Petit Concert | NSPA violation | Conviction |
United States v. Waxman | 1986 | Federal | Cornell construction Box | Theft | Conviction |
United States v. a 10th Century Cambodian Sandstone Sculpture Depicting Skanda on a Peacock | 2021 | Federal | 10th-century Cambodian sandstone sculpture Skanda on a peacock | Forfeiture | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |