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However, US authorities have struggled to establish the ownership of the painting as the
Nahmads claimed in court the Panama-based IAC held it. After the leaked papers, obtained along with millions of others by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, revealed Nahmad as the owner of
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over the painting in 1941 and auctioned it off in 1944. In 1946, Oscar
Stettiner filed a claim to recover the painting, but the French authorities were ultimately unable to find it. However, the French court recognized Oscar Stettiner as the owner of this painting, which still bears his name on label
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Des documents confidentiels, que Le Monde a pu consulter, lèvent le voile sur une partie de ce mystère. Obtenues par le
Consortium international de journalistes d'investigations (ICIJ) et la Süddeutsche Zeitung, ces pièces font partie des « Panama papers ». Elles démontrent que la société
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Following a court decision in 2017, Maestracci has standing to continue with his 2014 lawsuit to reclaim the work. In the
January 2020 edition of the Art Newspaper new evidence is referred to with respect to a 1950 document, which contains a photograph of the painting on one side and the words
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IAC, he told Radio Canada he "could not sleep at night if I knew I owned a looted object". Reacting to the leak, the family's lawyer
Richard Golub said it was "irrelevant" who owned the company, as "the main thing is what are the issues in the case, and can the plaintiff prove them?"
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in the US federal court in New York to recover the painting. The
Nahmads initially denied that they were the owners of the painting, claiming that they were merely exhibiting it on the behalf of the IAC, a Panamanian corporation listed as its titular owner. However the
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Modigliani canvas that was seized by Nazis during World War II and is the subject of an ongoing quest for
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IAC n'a d'autre actionnaire depuis sa création en 1995… que la famille Nahmad. Depuis 2014, derrière ses dirigeants fantômes se cache un et un seul propriétaire : David Nahmad, le patriarche familial.
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Maestracci claims ownership of the painting through inheritance through his grandfather. According to Maestracci, the painting was taken from his grandfather, Jewish Parisian art dealer
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released in 2016, "David Nahmad, the family leader, has been the company’s sole owner since
January 2014”. In April, 2016, Swiss authorities seized the painting from the
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