Legal Opinion
In Re the Estate of Stettiner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 14, 2017No. 2364PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Tom, J.P.
The genesis of this litigation was in 1939, when, with the Nazi invasion imminent, decedent Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish art collector, abruptly fled Paris, leaving his art collection behind. His art collection was later sold by the Nazis, including an early twentieth century painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, which Stettiner’s heir seeks to recover. The issue before this Court is whether petitioner International Art Center, S.A. (IAC), which purchased the painting in 1996 for $3.2 million, has standing to challenge the ancillary letters of…
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