MoMA vs Grosz (Q96774828)
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legal case relating to the ownership of three of Grosz's caricatural paintings
- 772 F.Supp.2d 473 (2010)
- Martin GROSZ and Lilian Grosz, Plaintiffs, v. The MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Defendant, Herrmann-Neisse With Cognac, Self-Portrait With Model and Republican Automatons, Three Paintings by Grosz, Defendants-in-rem.
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | MoMA vs Grosz |
legal case relating to the ownership of three of Grosz's caricatural paintings |
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6 January 2010
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On behalf of two heirs of the artist George Grosz—Martin Grosz, his son, and Lilian Grosz, the wife of his late son Peter—Dowd sued MoMA in federal court in the Southern District of New York, in May 2009, to compel the museum to return to the heirs three works by Grosz in the museum’s collection: two paintings, The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse (1927) and Self-Portrait with a Model (1928), and a watercolor, Republican Automatons (1920). In response to Dowd’s suit, the museum claimed that it had proper title to all of the disputed works.In January 2010, Judge Colleen McMahon tossed out the Grosz lawsuit on the grounds that the three-year statute of limitations for making the claim against MoMA had run its course. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that decision. Dowd petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case, but this past October the high court turned it down.Dowd contends that the courts ruled in MoMA’s favor on a technicality—the statute of limitations—and failed to examine the underlying evidence. (English)