A New York judge ruled this week that Seated Man With a Cane (1918) rightfully belongs to the estate of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish art dealer who left the portrait behind under duress while fleeing Paris ahead of the Nazi occupation. The judge added that David Nahmad and the Nahmad holding company “failed to raise any material issues of fact, and offered no evidence identifying anyone other than Mr. Stettiner as the owner of the painting or suggesting that he voluntarily relinquished it.” The New York court disagreed, finding the evidence overwhelmingly favored the claimant and citing a wealth of prewar exhibition records and postwar restitution filings tying the painting to Stettiner.
Author: Tessa Solomon
Published at: 2026-04-04 20:48:43
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