Legal Opinion
Schoeps v. Museum of Modern Art
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 27, 2009No. 07 Civ. 11074 (JSR)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JED S. RAKDFF, District Judge.
This case essentially involves claims by Julius Schoeps, Edelgard von Lavergne-Peguilhen, and Florence Kesselstatt (“Claimants”), heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (“Paul”) and/or of his second wife, Elsa, that two Picasso paint ings — Boy Leading a Horse (1905-1906) (“Boy”) and Le Moulin de la Galette (1900) (collectively, “the Paintings”) — once owned by Paul and now held by, respectively, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Foundation (“the Museums”), were transferred from Paul and/or Elsa as a result of Nazi duress and rightfully belong…
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