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Art Law Keyed to Gerstenblith, 4th Ed.
Konowaloff v. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Citation:
702 F.3d 140 (2012)Facts
Pierre Konowaloff is the sole heir to Ivan Morozov, a Russian national who owned an extensive modern art collection in Moscow before World War I, including a Cézanne painting acquired in 1911. After the Bolshevik revolution in November 1917, the new regime issued numerous nationalization decrees. On December 19, 1918, the Bolsheviks specifically decreed that Morozov’s art collection was state property, confiscating it without compensation. The United States did not recognize the Soviet government until November 16, 1933. In May 1933, Stephen C. Clark acquired the painting in a transaction that may have violated Soviet law. Clark, a Museum trustee, died in 1960 and bequeathed the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Konowaloff became the official heir to the Morozov collection in 2002 and learned of the painting’s existence in 2008. In May 2010, he demanded the Museum return the painting, and after refusal, he filed suit seeking injunctive, monetary, and declaratory relief.
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