Legal Opinion
Martin Hilti Family Trust v. Knoedler Gallery, LLC
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided May 8, 2019No. 13 Civ. 0657 (PGG), 13 Civ. 1193 (PGG)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Over the next fifteen years, Rosales provided the Gallery with dozens of previously undiscovered works by well-known Abstract Expressionist artists (the "Rosales Paintings"), and the Gallery sold these paintings to its customers. (Rosales Painting List (Hilti Dkt. No. 219-104)) All of these paintings were forgeries. (Sept. 16, 2013 Rosales Plea Tr. at 27:11-18), United States v. Rosales, No. 13 Crim. 518 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 16, 2013), Dkt. No. 23 (guilty plea allocution).4
1. Provenance
As the Gallery sold Rosales Paintings, Freedman and her staff conducted research into the provenance of…
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