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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

‪‬Despite pending lawsuit against David and Helly Nahmad to return Modigliani’s Seated Man with a Cane (1918) (alleged stolen from a Paris dealer by Nazis in 1939), the Nahmads’ lawyers now say the International Art Center purchased from Christie’s in 1996, not the Nahmad family, thus the suit is misdirected. [AO Newslink]

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Friday, November 11th, 2011

‪‬Modigliani Portrait of Marevna in Pushkin Museum disputed as fake based on tests by Swiss Institute for Art Research [AO Newslink]

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