Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wallach, J.
The action is one to recover a chattel pursuant to CPLR article 71, often referred to as "replevin” (see, Siegel, NY Prac § 337, at 411). It is brought by a museum and involves a watercolor painting, or gouache, claimed to be worth $200,000, and done by Marc Chagall in 1912 as a study for his oil painting of the same subject entitled Le Marchand de Bestiaux (The Cattle Dealer). The complaint alleges that the gouache was stolen from plaintiff in the mid-1960’s by a person or persons unknown; that plaintiff learned of defendant’s possession of the gouache in…
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