The Getty Museum has gotten wrapped up in a fight for a 14th-century diptych which was purchased in 1986. In a preemptive attempt to block any legal action against the museum, The Getty has filed a suit in California to be named the legal owner of the work. The museum says Geraud Marie de Sabran-Ponteves recently made a claim on the diptych based on an inheritance dispute over the late Duke de Sabran-Ponteves’ estate. According to this claim, Sabran-Ponteves says his brother (the current duke) sold the painting to Wildenstein gallery in New York in the early 1980’s without the other siblings’ consent. The museum says Sabran-Ponteves is requesting to have the diptych returned to the estate or €2 million in compensation.
