U.S. Blocks Return of Schiele Painting to Austria Despite Court Ruling

On September 22, 1999, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York obtained a seizure warrant for “Portrait of Wally,” the painting allegedly plundered by the Nazis and held in New York under a grand jury subpoena until the New York State Court of Appeals ruled in a 6-to-1 decision that the work could be returned...[more]