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Canadian Impressionist, Lost in Flight, Lands

February 3, 2011 by Marion Maneker

As they do, another stolen work of art appeared in Canada recently according to the Globe and Mail. This one is valued at $30,000 but similar examples of the artist’s work have sold for as much as $200,000 in recent years.

In the spring of 1988, an art dealer in Calgary shipped Château Liévin, a roughly 14-by-17-centimetre oil by James Wilson Morrice, to a dealer in Toronto by airplane. However, the work never arrived, and investigators believe it was lifted at Pearson International Airport.

Last summer, a woman showed up at high-end galleries and auction houses on Hazelton Avenue with the piece, asking for an appraisal. […] Investigators cleared the woman who brought the painting in ([She]said she had apparently received it from her ex-husband, an airline employee), but have not been able to figure out who stole it, prompting them to go public on Wednesday.

Purloined Canadian Painting Surfaces Decades After Theft (Globe and Mail)

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