Dozens of valuable artworks believed to be missing from Montreal home

As many as 60 artworks are believed to be missing from the Montreal home of a man who died over the holidays, with members of the country’s art market wondering about the fate of works by coveted artists including Lawren Harris, Emily Carr and Marc Chagall.

Westmount resident Richard Kastner was in his late seventies when he died on Dec. 24, an obituary on the Paperman & Sons funeral home website says. Though little about his life was public, he amassed an immense collection of visual art in his lifetime, according to Montreal art dealer Robin Rosenberg and two other people in the art-collecting world who worked with him. The Globe and Mail is not identifying those sources because of sensitivities around the recency of his death.