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The New York times is reporting that after years of delay, the ownership and authentication of
315 Johns (see image) will finally go to trial. An artist, John Chamberlain had possession of the painting and sold it as a Warhol. The Warhol authentication board deemed it authentic. Of course with the Warhol authentication board, nothing is simple, and there are claims, by the plaintiff, Gerard Malanga who worked with Warhol claims to have created the work in tribute to Warhol in 1971. Making the matter even more interesting, the painting is a group of images arranged in a large grid of the defendant, John Chamerlain.
The trial date is now expected to be set, and to commence in about two months. Stayed tuned, this should be interesting.
The NY Times reports
He said he and two friends cranked it out themselves in 1971 in a studio in Great Barrington, Mass., as an homage to Warhol a year after Mr. Malanga left Warhol’s Factory in Manhattan. Over the years, Mr. Malanga said, he lost track of the painting and it ended up ended up in Mr. Chamberlain’s TriBeCa loft.
Mr. Chamberlain’s request to have the case dismissed was denied by a New York State Supreme Court judge in 2008 and an appeal of that decision was rejected by the state’s Appellate Division in 2010. A second request for dismissal was denied in December and Mr. Malanga’s lawyer, Peter R. Stern, said that he now expects the court to set a date for a trial to begin sometime within the next two months.
To read the full NY Times article, click
HERE.
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