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The Ukrainian steel magnate Victor Pinchuk bought six paintings by Damien Hirst from the artist’s White Cube show Two Weeks One Summer, London. The works are on display at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev, with five other pieces from the same cycle loaned from White Cube until 6 January.
artobserved.com
Cézanne’s painting Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory, donated by former Metropolitan Museum trustee Stephen Clark, was involved in a dispute with Pierre Konowaloff, heir to a collector whose assets were seized during the Russian Revolution. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. courts cannot inquire into foreign sovereign decisions within their own territory. The article about the case is from Reuters.
itsartlaw.org
Pierre Konowaloff sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art over ownership of Paul Cézanne's Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory. The Second Circuit affirmed a 2011 ruling dismissing the case based on the Act of State Doctrine, concluding Konowaloff lacked standing to challenge the Met's ownership after the painting passed to the government and then to Stephen C. Clark, who bequeathed it to the Met.
museumpublicity.com
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Tenth Anniversary Acquisitions. The exhibition highlights new acquisitions including Dan Flavin Untitled (for you Leo, in long respect and affection) 4, 1978 and Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #50A, 1970 as part of the museum’s tenth anniversary acquisitions. The article notes the works were acquired around 2010 and references the building designed by Tadao Ando and a gala on December 6, 2012.