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O’Keeffe v. Snyder
Citation:
83 N.J. 478, 416 A.2d 862 (1980)Facts
Georgia O’Keeffe alleged that three of her paintings disappeared from a New York gallery called “An American Place” in 1946. She claimed one painting (Cliffs) was discovered missing from a wall, and two others (Seaweed and Fragments) were missing from storage. O’Keeffe did not report the disappearance to police but discussed it with associates in the art world. In 1972, she reported the theft to the Art Dealers Association of America. In 1975, she discovered the paintings were on consignment to a gallery in New York, and in 1976 learned they were in Snyder’s possession after he purchased them from Frank for $35,000. Frank claimed the paintings had been in his family’s possession since the early 1940s, having belonged to his father, Dr. Frank, who died in 1968. Frank kept the paintings in his residences and even exhibited two of them anonymously in 1968. The factual record presented conflicting accounts about whether the paintings were stolen and when they were first possessed by the Frank family.
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