IFARreports

Volume 12, No. 10

October 1991

IFAR Helps FBI Recover a Bonnard
— Virgilia H. Pancoast
George Hatem, alias Tony Tameq, interrogated in theft of Bonnard, La Baignade or Les Enfants de la Famille Terrasse.

A Man and His Missions: Rare Painting and Books Stolen from San Gabriel, CA
— Clara Graziani Bronson
William March Witherell, book and painting thief.

Squires Sue NY Gallery
— Constance Lowenthal
Roman bronze cheetah or leopard (pictured), one of 15 ancient objects allegedly stolen from Brownings’ Suffolk farm in 1981-82, bought in Basel by Ariadne Galleries and offered for sale to Getty Museum. Brownings sue Ariadne in John and Rosemary Browning v. Ariadne Galleries.

Sting Operation Reveals Stolen Artifacts: Boston College Librarian Halts Sale of Smuggled Irish Grave Slabs
— Caroline Goeser
Dr. Robert K. O'Neill helps nab smuggler Peter Kenny.

Netherlands Recovers Rubens Oil Sketch in Vienna
— Constance Lowenthal
Perseus and Andromeda surfaces at Vienna auction house.

IFAR Helps Recover Washington Portrait in Los Angeles
— Anna J. Kisluk
Christopher Brown arrested in UCLA theft of portrait attributed to Gilbert Stuart.

Recoveries
Kroll, Migliaro, Stuart.

Just In…
Silver Gilt Drinking Cup from Belfast, part of stolen canteen.