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Stettiner's father Henri retired, he gave his business to his children, and Stettiner became a partner at Stettiner et Cie. with his siblings. The business operated internationally. Initially the company was headed by Alphonse, and then by Oscar Stettiner in 1935 on. Shortly after World War II
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Stettiner's grandson hired Mondex, a
Canadian company that is paid a 39 1/2 percent recovery fee that alleges Stettiner owned Seated Man with a Cane—that claim and the alleged attribution of ownership is now vigorously contested in a New York State lawsuit by the owner of the painting who legally
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Stettiner was born in 1878, the son of Henri Jules Stettiner and his wife Gertrude Davis. He had an older brother Alphonse, born in 1876, and a sister, Adele Stettiner, born in 1880. Oscar and Alphonse had British nationality; Adele French, and they were of Jewish ancestry.
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