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Case Summary
Adler Heirs v. The Guggenheim
Bennigson, et al. v. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, No. 650416/2023 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Jan 20, 2023).
Précis
This New York state court case involves a dispute between the heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler, prominent Jewish art collectors, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation over the ownership of Pablo Picasso's painting Woman Ironing (La repasseuse) from his blue period. The painting was sold to Justin K. Thannhauser after the Nazi regime's persecution of the Adler family in Germany. The heirs and a few nonprofit organizations that a re residual heirs are now seeking the painting's return or compensation equivalent to its current market value, which they estimate to be between $100 and $200 million...
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