Stefan Simchowitz settles bitter legal case with Ibrahim Mahama

The Los Angeles dealer and artist agent Stefan Simchowitz and the Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King have settled their legal case against the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama. A Californian court dismissed the lawsuit on 4 May after a lengthy battle that first began in June 2015 when the dealers sued Mahama for declaring hundreds of jute sack works inauthentic, potentially costing them $4.5m.
The row centred on six lots of jute sack material, which Mahama sold to Simchowitz and Ellis King for &po