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NEW YORK - An Edgar Degas painting that was stolen 37 years ago and recently rediscovered before an auction in New York will be returned to the French government, U.S. officials said Thursday.
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and James T. Hayes Jr., head of the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced that a Manhattan seller had agreed to turn over the painting, "Laundry Woman with Toothache," without a forfeiture proceeding.See the full content of this document
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Recovered Degas to Be Returned to France
Sotheby's had given the small oil portrait of a young woman holding her jaw an estimated valu...
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