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ARTCURIAL, S.A. v. LOWENTHAL

No. 89 Civ. 6409 (RO).

763 F.Supp. 768 (1991)

ARTCURIAL, S.A., Plaintiff, v. Chester LOWENTHAL, Esq., and Hand-In-Hand Galleries Ltd., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 20, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City (Ellen August, of counsel), for plaintiff.

John B. Koegel, New York City (Norman H. Zivin, of counsel), for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge:

This lawsuit arises out of plaintiff Artcurial's purchase of a painting from defendant Chester Lowenthal, an art dealer and owner of Hand-in-Hand Galleries Ltd. in New York. Artcurial, a French corporation, paid Lowenthal $180,000 for a painting that Lowenthal represented to be an authentic work by the deceased Spanish painter Manolo Millares. Shortly after plaintiff took possession of the painting and shipped it...

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