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Ad Reinhardt Work from 1940 at Center of Another Dispute with the Federal Government 

June 20, 2016 by Marion Maneker

The NY Post is reporting that the Feds are threatening another owner over a work created by the WPA. But this time, the artist is Ad Reinhardt and the painting was sold through Sotheby’s nearly two decades ago:

“Abstraction #6” by Ad Reinhardt was listed at just $15,000 to $20,000 when Sotheby’s put it up for sale in November 1997, says the buyer, Myron Kaplan.

But the federal government says “Abstraction #6” was made for them in 1940 under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration [….]  Both Sotheby’s and the GSA refused to share information about the artwork’s origins, so Kaplan is asking a Manhattan judge to force Sotheby’s to tell him what it knows to satisfy his “urgent need to independently verify the provenance of the painting.”

Feds fight to reclaim New Deal-era painting  (New York Post)

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