A painting by an American modernist artist that was stolen from a major corporate art collection over thirty-years ago and replaced with a skilled forgery will be returning home after more than two years of litigation.  
 
The artwork’s most recent possessors—a New York family who purchased the work in 1993 from a Manhattan art gallery—initiated the lawsuit in federal court in Illinois in 2018.  En route to trial, Grossman LLP achieved two important preliminary wins in the case, first securing a transfer of the case from Illinois to New York, and then, this past summer, obtaining a ruling that the company’s replevin claims are timely as a matter of law. 
 
Following a three-day bench trial in November,  District Judge Lorna Schofield of the Southern District of New York granted judgment in favor of the company on its declaratory-judgment and replevin claims, finding that it had successfully demonstrated superior title to the painting, free of any claims by its current possessors.