Legal Opinion
Gerda Dorothea Deweerth v. Edith Marks Baldinger, Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellant, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 27, 1994No. 83,127, Docket 93-7144, 93-7146PublishedCited by 166 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is the latest episode in a decade-long dispute over the ownership of an oil painting entitled “Champs de Blé á Yétheuil” by Claude Monet. The work by the celebrated French Impressionist was previously owned by plaintiff Gerda Dorothea DeW-eerth, a German citizen. It was discovered missing from DeWeerth’s family castle after *1269World War II, and was subsequently purchased by defendant Edith Marks Baldinger, a New York resident, from third-party-defendant Wildenstein & Co., a New York art gallery. Baldinger and Wildenstein & Co. (referred to collectively as…
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