Legal Opinion
Bakalar v. Vavra
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 2, 2010No. Docket 08-5119-cvPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge KORMAN concurs in a separate opinion.
EDWARD R. KORMAN, District Judge:
This case involves a dispute over the ownership of a drawing by Egon Schiele (the “Drawing”) between plaintiff David Bakalar, the current possessor of the Drawing, and defendants Milos Vavra and Leon Fischer, heirs to the estate of Franz Friedrich Grunbaum (“Grunbaum”). Although the Drawing was untitled by the artist, one of the descriptive titles by which it is known is “Seated Woman with Bent Left Leg (Torso).”
Vavra and Fischer allege the following facts in their complaint. The Drawing was one of eighty-one Schieles…
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