REIF v. NAGY

161799/15, 3534, 1187, 3533.

149 A.D.3d 532 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 02920

52 N.Y.S.3d 100

TIMOTHY REIF et al., Respondents, v. RICHARD NAGY et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. TIMOTHY REIF et al., Respondents, v. RICHARD NAGY et al., Defendants. ARIS TITLE INSURANCE CORPORATION, Proposed Intervenor-Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 18, 2017.


This action arises from two pieces by the artist Egon Schiele alleged to have been looted by the Nazis during World War II from cabaret artist Fritz Grunbaum, who, along with his wife Elisabeth, was executed during the Holocaust. The pieces came into the possession of art dealer Nagy sometime after 2013.

In 2005, David Bakalar, a Massachusetts industrialist turned sculptor, brought suit against the heirs of Grunbaum seeking, inter alia, a declaration that he was the...

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