{"id":2153,"date":"2024-06-19T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2024-06-19T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:14:19","slug":"restitution-suit-over-guggenheims-woman-ironing-by-picasso-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/restitution-suit-over-guggenheims-woman-ironing-by-picasso-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Restitution Suit Over Guggenheim\u2019s \u2018Woman Ironing\u2019 by Picasso Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pablo Picasso<\/a>\u2019s 1904 painting\u00a0Woman Ironing<\/em>, which has been at the center of a restitution lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, will remain with the\u00a0Guggenheim\u00a0Foundation. The lawsuit was dismissed by the court on the grounds that it failed to establish \u201cactionable duress,\u201d according to a report in\u00a0Law.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit against the Guggenheim was filed in January 2023 by Thomas Bennigson, a relative of the German Jewish art collector Karl Adler. In the complaint Bennigson claimed that Adler in 1938 sold the painting under duress in order to fund his and his family\u2019s escape from the Nazi regime to Argentina.<\/p>\n

He sold the picture, which in 1931 was appraised at $14,000, to a Parisian art dealer and Picasso expert named Justin Thannhauser for just over 10 percent of its worth, $1,552. The complaint alleges that Thannhauser \u201cwas well aware of the plight of Adler and his family. And that, absent Nazi persecution, Adler would never have sold the painting when he did at such a price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woman Ironing<\/em>\u00a0now has an estimated value of between $150 million and $200 million.<\/p>\n

The courts do not have clear guidance on what the conditions must be for a sale to be considered \u201cunder duress.\u201d In a January 2023 story in\u00a0the<\/a>\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the New York\u2013based art and cultural heritage lawyer Leila Amineddoleh said judges are \u201creluctant to void sales\u201d that are claimed to have been under duress.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems that the courts are kind of punting this question and deciding [cases] on other grounds,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The judge in this case, Andrew Borrok, did exactly that. His decision hinged on the fact that the family had been aware that the Guggenheim had the painting for years. Thannhauser, who died in 1976,\u00a0gifted the artwork to the Guggenheim Foundation in his will. In his decision Justice Borrok wrote that \u201cin 1974, and prior to acquiring the Painting, the Guggenheim contacted the Adlers and asked specific questions about the Painting\u2019s provenance to which the Adlers never in any way indicated that the Sale was tainted by duress as the plaintiffs now allege.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, Justice Borrok stated that the plaintiffs failed to show any specific duress or malice suffered by the Adler family that would have prompted the sale. The complaint, the judge wrote, assumes that sales made \u201cduring the Nazi era are per se void or voidable because those sales occurred in a coercive market created by the Nazis,\u201d but doesn\u2019t show any specific coercion attached to this particular sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing was threatened that would happen specifically if Adler refused to sell the Painting to J. Thannhauser when he did or at the price he did either by the Nazis or anyone collaborating with the Nazis,\u201d Justice Borrok wrote.<\/p>\n

Restituting works through the courts has proven quite difficult, with several examples in recent months of such lawsuits being dismissed. Earlier this month, a federal court\u00a0dismissed a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against the Japanese company Sompo Holdings surrounding\u00a0Vincent van Gogh<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Sunflowers<\/em>. On May 29, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals found that the Museum of Fine Arts Houston could keep Bernardo Bellotto\u2019s\u00a0The Marketplace at Pirna<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a work that was being claimed by the heirs of Max J. Emden, who sold the picture, and two other Bellottos, to a dealer who was working on behalf of the German government in 1938.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pablo Picasso\u2019s 1904 painting\u00a0Woman Ironing, which has been at the center of a restitution lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, will remain with the\u00a0Guggenheim\u00a0Foundation. The lawsuit was dismissed by the court on the grounds that it failed to establish \u201cactionable duress,\u201d according to a report in\u00a0Law.com. 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