From left to right: “Woman in Black Pinafore” (1911) and “Woman Hiding Her Face” (1912) by Egon Schiele.
A seven-year legal fight over the rightful ownership of two early 20th century Austrian paintings, which has been followed by the international art community as a key case in the growing area of legal disputes over alleged Nazi-stolen art, has ended with a one-sentence order from New York state’s high court.
The Court of Appeals has rejected a London-based art dealer’s request that it hear his appeal on the merits after the two Egon Schiele paintings, which have been valued at $3.4 million combined, were ordered by a court in 2018 to be transferred to the heirs of an Austrian Jewish entertainer who’d collected the works, and who later died inside a Nazi concentration camp.
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