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Case Summary
Killala Fine Art, Ltd. v. Weissman
Killala Fine Art, Ltd. v. Weissman, No. 11-cv-0702 (S.D.N.Y., filed Feb. 1, 2011).
Précis
This lawsuit concerned a decision by the Dedalus Foundation, a non-profit organization established by the artist Robert Motherwell, to retract its authentication of a purported Motherwell painting after it had become suspicious that it and other similar works were forgeries. The painting's purchaser, who had obtained the work from a dealer prior to the retraction, then sued the dealer and, in an unusual twist, also sued the Foundation, claiming that it had broken a “promise” to include the painting in the Motherwell
catalogue raisonné
A publication which details the complete list of an artist’s works or the artist’s works produced in a particular medium or during a particular time period.
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