Heir to the collector Morozov sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paul Cezanne Portrait of Madame Cezanne in a greenhouse. 1891. Source:
French engineer Pierre Konovaloff (Pierre Konowaloff), grandson of the prominent collector Ivan Morozov, sued the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. It demands the restitution of paintings by Paul Cezanne Madame Cezanne in the greenhouse "(1891), which it claims was stolen after the Bolsheviks nationalized Morozov collection in 1918.
Metropolitan received painting in 1960, bequest collector Stephen C. Clarke (Stephen Clark), heir to the empire sewing machine Zinger. Clark acquired the painting in 1933; Konovaloff states that the collector knew about the "bad" provenance. According to plaintiff, "Madame Cezanne" first appeared in the Berlin gallery Matthausen, through which flow were subjects of the Russian collections available for sale to the West, then went to the London P & D Gallery, and, finally, was among the exhibits of New York's Knoedler & Company, where it and bought Clark.
Konovaloff, the sole heir Morozova with the right to possession of the collection is going to achieve not only restitution, but also financial compensation for "illegal acquisition, possession, exposure and retention in a painting. " Metro has already issued a statement which claims the engineer called "totally unfounded».
Experts estimate "Madame Cezanne in 50-70 million dollars (although some argue that its price can reach and 100 million). On the current whereabouts of paintings Konovaloff learned four years ago and since then he had several times turned into a museum, but no reply received. The engineer is now fighting for one more job at the time bought by Clark - Van Gogh's painting "Night Cafe", which is now part of the collection at Yale University.
«Some wealthy American collectors in including Andrew Mellon, Treasury under President Herbert Hoover, the Bolsheviks gained the stolen art on the black market "- says Konovaloff. Founding Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Barr, in his words, "knew that at least part of its museum collection previously belonged to Morozov».
material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI
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