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Jack Kevorkian artwork dispute settled
October 6, 2012 - 15:50 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Art by suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be
shared by his niece and a Boston-area art gallery, ending an ownership
dispute, his executor said, according to UPI.
Attorney Mayer Morganroth, executor of Kevorkian's estate, confirmed
an agreement had been reached between the estate and the Armenian
Library and Museum of Watertown, Mass.
Kevorkian, who died at 83 in 2011, entrusted the collection of 17
paintings, many containing disturbing and grotesque images and some
believed to include his own blood as a painting medium, to the museum
in 1999, before he was sentenced to prison for assisting in a suicide.
The collection has been valued at more than $2 million.
Morgenroth filed suit in Oakland County, Mich., Circuit Court last
year, seeking the return of the artwork. The lawsuit was dismissed
after the museum countersued in federal court, claiming it owned the
artwork, court documents said.
The agreement provides for the museum to keep four works and the
remainder to be retained by the estate for Kevorkian's niece, Ava
Janus of Troy, Mich., Morganroth said.
October 6, 2012 - 15:50 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Art by suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be
shared by his niece and a Boston-area art gallery, ending an ownership
dispute, his executor said, according to UPI.
Attorney Mayer Morganroth, executor of Kevorkian's estate, confirmed
an agreement had been reached between the estate and the Armenian
Library and Museum of Watertown, Mass.
Kevorkian, who died at 83 in 2011, entrusted the collection of 17
paintings, many containing disturbing and grotesque images and some
believed to include his own blood as a painting medium, to the museum
in 1999, before he was sentenced to prison for assisting in a suicide.
The collection has been valued at more than $2 million.
Morgenroth filed suit in Oakland County, Mich., Circuit Court last
year, seeking the return of the artwork. The lawsuit was dismissed
after the museum countersued in federal court, claiming it owned the
artwork, court documents said.
The agreement provides for the museum to keep four works and the
remainder to be retained by the estate for Kevorkian's niece, Ava
Janus of Troy, Mich., Morganroth said.