For works by Schiele claimed by the heirs of the deceased in a concentration camp owner. The watercolour was exhibited at the London art pavilion-дилера Richard Nagy

Another restorative scandal this time broke out at the art fair the Armory Show in new York. In the pavilion of the famous London dealer Richard Nagy (Richard Nagy), engaged in the art business since 1980, exhibited two watercolors by Egon Schiele, "the Girl covering the face" and "Woman in a black apron". Fair dedicated to art and design, ended on 16 November. Did they find a buyer for works by Schiele — unknown, but not that it matters: the Manhattan court has banned selling these watercolors or to take them from US. They claim to distant relatives of the Jewish collectors of Fritz Grunbaum (Fritz Grunbaum), which filed a lawsuit in the court Nuirka@

Fritz grünbaum worked in cabaret in Vienna. In 1941 he died in the Dachau concentration camp; his wife, Elizabeth, a year later died in Auschwitz. The Grunbaum collection of about 400 works, according to the heirs, fell to the Nazis. The location of the majority of the works from the Grunbaum collection of remains neizvestnym@

Richard Nagy assured that he is entirely on the side of Holocaust victims and their heirs, because himself is in the family of the victims from the oppression of the Jews, however, according to him, in this case speech about sale under duress. According to the dealer, these watercolors Schiele in 1956 were officially sold to sister-in-law of Fritz Grunbaum ( that is, if confiscation by the Nazis still took place, then later the work is still returned to their families). And by the way, in the arbitration court of Vienna that the case was heard twice already, and both times the court held that "certificates of confiscation of works no."

Plaintiffs argue that the transaction of 1956 cannot be considered lawful because conducted the deal sister-in-law was never official, according to the documents, the successor of Grunbaum. The hearing is scheduled for December 1, and while watercolors Schiele detained in Newarke@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: artnet.com, nydailynews.com, artinvestment.ru