Legal Opinion
Roistacher v. Bondi
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 10, 2014No. 11 Civ. 8200(KBF)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION & ORDER
KATHERINE B. FORREST, District Judge:
In 1939 following the German annexation of Austria, a woman named Lea Bondi Jaray was forced to surrender to a Nazi agent a painting by Egon Schiele called “Portrait of Wally.” At the conclusion of the war, the painting was obtained by the Austrian government and eventually, the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
In October 1997, the painting made its way to New York for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (“MoMA”), and on December 24, 1997, The New York Times published an article about the painting and its unusual history. Later…
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