Pushkin show to open as planned
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art said its upcoming exhibition of a major art collection from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow, would open as planned July 27 -- despite a lawsuit, filed against the museum by the grandson of a Russian aristocrat, which alleges that 25 of the works in the collection were looted from his family by Lenin’s Bolshevik government in 1918.
“We examined the case and it was clear that it did not have significant merit,” said Andrea L. Rich, LACMA’s president.
“There isn’t at present any legal proceeding stopping us, and I don’t believe there will be.
“It’s a great exhibition, and we have it here for a brief period of time, and I don’t want to waste any of those days the public might enjoy it.”
The suit, filed Tuesday on behalf of Andre Marc Delocque-Fourcaud in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, argues that the works should be removed from the LACMA exhibition and that the museum owes compensation for damages.
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--Diane Haithman
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