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Case Summary
Frenk v. Solomon
Frenk v. Solomon, No. 650298/2013 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Jan. 27, 2014); aff’d (N.Y. Sup. Ct. App. Div. 1st Dept. Dec. 2, 2014); dismissed, (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Sept. 10, 2018); aff’d (N.Y. Sup. Ct. App. Div. 1st Dept. June 11, 2019).
Précis
In this New York State case, Margit Frenk, the heir of German-Jewish art critic and collector Paul Westheim, sought the return of 4 Expressionist paintings from the heirs of his colleague, Charlotte Weidler. Westheim had entrusted the paintings to Weidler when he fled Germany in 1933, but, Frenk alleged, they had never been returned, as Weidler deceived Westheim into . . . .
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