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Nacht v. Sotheby’s Holdings Inc.
Nacht v. Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc., No. 100938-98, (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1999).
Précis
At a Sotheby’s auction in November 1981, Eva Leclair Nacht purchased what was purported to be a Francis Picabia painting, completed in Paris circa 1930, for $23,815. Nacht received a five year warranty of
authenticity
The genuineness or truth of something; in art, the determination or judgment that a work is by the artist to whom it has been attributed.
authenticity for the painting from Sotheby’s. In 1996, a vice-president of Sotheby’s appraised the painting at $225,000. Shortly thereafter . . . .
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