An appeals court in New York ruled that two artworks which may have been looted by the Nazis must remain in the United States until a criminal investigation into their ownership is finished. The ruling overturns a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed the two works by the Austrian Egon Schiele. which were displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York early last year, to return to Austria pending the outcome of the investigation.
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