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Modigliani Restitution Case Grinds Forward

March 1, 2012 by Marion Maneker

The Art Newspaper ferreted around in the courthouse to get these early maneuverings in the restitution case surrounding Modigliani’s Seated Man with a Cane:

In court papers, the Nahmads’ legal team says instead that an organisation called the International Art Center (IAC) possesses the piece and that “Helly Nahmad Gallery never owned the painting [which] is not in New York State… the plaintiff has sued the wrong defendant.”

But lawyers for Philippe Maestracci, who is claiming Modigliani’s Seated Man with a Cane, contend that the “International Art Center is an offshore entity used by the Nahmad defendants as an instrumentality to hold their interests in works, around 90% of which are held in an art storage facility at the free port of Geneva.”

We Don’t Own That Modigliani (The Art Newspaper)

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