High Court Urged to Hear Nazi Art Theft Case, With Dealer Saying NY State Decisions Should Give Way
The Court of Appeals must review the lower state courts' rulings, Charron wrote, because they created "novel rules" of collateral estoppel and laches that could affect a wide variety of art ownership cases in New York.
February 11, 2020 at 06:35 PM
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A London-based art dealer asked the New York Court of Appeals on Monday to hear his claim to a pair of century-old drawings by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, arguing that lower state courts' decisions would upend the New York art world if they were allowed to stand.
William Charron of Pryor Cashman, who is representing dealer Richard Nagy, argued that an earlier federal court case settled questions about rightful ownership of the drawings, which are part of a collection owned by a Jewish Austrian collector, Fritz Grunbaum, in the 1930s.
Grunbaum and his wife died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and their heirs sued Nagy in 2015, claiming ownership of the drawings.
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