{"id":41259,"date":"2021-01-08T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=41259"},"modified":"2021-01-30T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T13:50:06","slug":"they-want-their-art-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/they-want-their-art-back\/","title":{"rendered":"They Want Their Art Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41260\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/missing_paintings.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41260\" class=\" wp-image-41260\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/missing_paintings-273x300.png\" alt=\"a document with the missing paintings and valuations\" width=\"239\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/missing_paintings-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/missing_paintings-931x1024.png 931w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/missing_paintings-768x845.png 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/missing_paintings.png 1144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missing Works<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/10\/27\/man-hands-over-60m-worth-in-paintings-avoids-jailtime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back in 2016<\/a>, Gallery Shchukin filed a lawsuit against the Russian financier Rustaam Iseev, for the return of five paintings said to be worth $60 million.\u00a0 In order to avoid arrest, Iseev informed the court where the works were being stored; however, the location was never disclosed to the gallery or their lawyers.\u00a0 So, the battle continued.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just over four years later, the gallery and their lawyers have filed a $100 million lawsuit in an attempt to force the judge to disclose the whereabouts of the works.\u00a0 According to one article, the defendant is not disputing that the paintings belong to Shchukin, but asserts that they are being held as collateral against a $2 million loan.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love the upper end of the art market!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/01\/art-gallery-wants-judge-to-disclose-location-of-art-worth-60m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art gallery wants judge to disclose location of art worth $60 million<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/news\/gallery-demands-usd100m-damages-in-case-of-hidden-russian-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawsuit claims $100m damages in tangled case of hidden Russian art worth $60m<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2016, Gallery Shchukin filed a lawsuit against the Russian financier Rustaam Iseev, for the return of five paintings said to be worth $60 million.\u00a0 In order to avoid arrest, Iseev informed the court where the works were being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/they-want-their-art-back\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[269,32],"class_list":["post-41259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-legal-matters","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>They Want Their Art Back! 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