New York court ordered the National Gallery of Art in Washington to return to former owners picture Haim Soutine “Meat beef”

Last week, the District Court Southern District of New York decide to return the family Shefner French expressionist paintings by the famous Russian origin Haim Soutine « Meat carcass »(ca. 1923). This work from 2004 was in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Prior to this, the canvas belonged Loretta Zholle Shefner (Lorette Jolles Shefner) from Montreal, which has sold him for a million dollars to two experts on creativity Soutine - Takmen Maurice (Maurice Tuchman) and TIPS Dano (Esti Dunow). The heirs of Loretta Shefner, who died in 2007, accused the dealers that they cheated an elderly woman, utaiv its real cost of the work, and thus forced her to sell it much cheaper than market value. Subsequently Takmen Dano and resold the painting at the Washington National Gallery of Art, but has twice as much.

Representatives of the museum also were among the defendants in this case. They were charged that they did not understand the origin of canvases.

Now on a court the ownership of the work of Soutine once again returned to the heirs Shefner, who agreed to leave it in the gallery to display for the next seven years or until they decide to sell it.

picture «Meat carcass» - the latest in a series of ten similar pieces created by Haim Soutine. Many of them are now stored in the largest museums in the world.

material produced Catherine Onuchin, AI

Sources: artdaily.com , cbc.ca , artinvestment.ru