Legal Opinion
Zuckerman v. Metro. Museum of Art
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided February 7, 2018No. 16 Civ. 7665 (LAP)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LORETTA A. PRESKA, Senior United States District Judge:
This is an action by Laurel Zuckerman, the Ancillary Administratrix of the estate of Alice Leffmann (the sole heir of Paul Friedrich Leffmann) (the "Leffmann estate"), to recover from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (the "Museum") a monumental work by Pablo Picasso entitled "The Actor," 1904-1905, oil on canvas, 77 1/4 x 45 3/8 in., signed lower right Picasso ("The Actor")(the "Painting"), which was owned by Paul Friedrich Leffmann ("Leffmann"), a German Jew, from approximately 1912 until 1938.
In 1937, Alice and Paul Leffmann (the…
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