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Case Summary
United States v. The Painting Known as "Hannibal"; In re 95 Works of Art from the Ferreira Collection
United States v. The Painting Known as “Hannibal” by the Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, No. 08-cv-1511 (S.D.N.Y 2013); aff’d, No. 10-5204 (2d Cir. 2014).
In re: 95 Works of Art from the Edemar Cid Ferreira Collection, No. 17-Misc.-0382 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 5, 2017).
Précis
In this complicated federal case involving multiple artworks, claimants, and countries, five works were seized by U.S. authorities and returned to Brazil, from which they had been illegally imported into the United States.
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