The swashbuckling art dealers of the cruise ship trade, Park West Gallery, is dropping a defamation suit against two lawyers suing the gallery over a some Salvador Dali prints the gallery sold at very ambitious prices. There turns out to be some problems with the signatures on the prints, according to The Art Newspaper:
A defamation case against two London lawyers who are suing the Michigan-based Park West Gallery over their purchase of a set of Salvador Dalí prints was dismissed last month, after a panel of three attorneys in Michigan assigned the case a value of $0.00. The panel, whose recommendations are non-binding, said the gallery should pay $347,900, around half the money they are seeking, to settle the couple’s suit against the gallery. […]
Meanwhile, the Michigan Court of Appeals also issued an order bringing Royal Caribbean Cruises back into Day and Howard’s case as co-defendants with Park West Gallery. They had previously been dismissed from the case because their attorney had argued that if anyone was at fault, it was Park West Gallery. But Donald Payton, the lawyer representing Day and Howard, said: “The cruise line provides a room for the auctions and makes upwards of 40% of all the sales.”
Lawyers Dismiss Park West Libel Case (The Art Newspaper)
