Canadian Stolen Art Saga

A Canadian family scored a major legal victory when a judge in the Czech Republic agreed that they should gain possession of a collection of Klimt, Ensor, Liebermann and Kokoschka paintings worth millions of dollars despite delaying tactics by the Czech authorities.
The Federer family sued two small public galleries in Ostrava and Pardubice to reclaim the works, part of more than 130 artworks collected by their Jewish grandfather Oskar Federer, before the start of the Second World War then later confiscated by Communists.
The Oskar Federer collection included paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir, Utrillo, Manet, Matisse and Derain among many others. More than half the collection - now worth tens of millions of dollars - remains unaccounted for.
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