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Oct 5 2012
Deal reached in Kevorkian's artwork
BIRMINGHAM, Mich., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- 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.
Attorney Mayer Morganroth, executor of Kevorkian's estate, confirmed
Thursday 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, The Detroit
News reported Friday.
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.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/10/05/Deal-reached-in-Kevorkians-artwork/UPI-87151349461572/
Oct 5 2012
Deal reached in Kevorkian's artwork
BIRMINGHAM, Mich., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- 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.
Attorney Mayer Morganroth, executor of Kevorkian's estate, confirmed
Thursday 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, The Detroit
News reported Friday.
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.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/10/05/Deal-reached-in-Kevorkians-artwork/UPI-87151349461572/