Legal Opinion
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston v. Seger-Thomschitz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 14, 2010No. 09-1922PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, the sole surviving heir of Austrian-Jewish art collector Oskar Reichel, seeks to recover possession of Oskar Kokoschka’s Two Nudes (Lovers) (“the Painting”), a valuable oil painting formerly owned by Reichel and now held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (“the MFA”). Seger-Thomschitz alleges that Reichel was forced to sell the Painting under duress after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and that good title never passed to the original purchaser or to the MFA. The MFA counters that the original transaction was valid and that…
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