The action is one to recover a chattel pursuant to CPLR article 71, often referred to as "replevin" (see, Siegel, NY Prac § 337, at 411). It is brought by a museum and involves a watercolor painting, or gouache, claimed to be worth $200,000, and done by Marc Chagall in 1912 as a study for his oil painting of the same subject entitled Le Marchand de Bestiaux (The Cattle Dealer)...
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