Art Historian Sues Wildenstein Plattner Institute for Holding Modigliani Research ‘Hostage’

In a suit filed in New York Southern District Court on June 9, art historian Marc Restellini alleges that the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports the production of digital catalogues raisonné and archives, has made copies of and disseminated his research on the artist Amedeo Modigliani without his permission. The French newspaper Le Monde first reported the news.
The suit details Restellini’s expertise and scholarship related to Modigliani, whose li