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Natalia Goncharova's Soldier Washing Horses (1910), valued in court documents at $6m, is among the works that a gallery's lawyer says were taken 'hostage' Courtesy of Shchukin Gallery In a long-running court battle, the Shchukin Gallery is seeking the return of five paintings by Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova worth $63m that the gallery says were taken by a Russian financier and have remained hidden ever since. Back in 2013, Rustam Iseev, a Russian financier and client of the Shchukin Gallery, introduced the investor Vladislav Gershkovich to the gallery’s o...

Natalia Goncharova's Soldier Washing Horses (1910), valued in court documents at $6m, is one of the missing works Courtesy of Shchukin Gallery A tangled four-year-long legal struggle over $60m worth of Russian art that the financier Rustam Iseev allegedly stole from Shchukin Gallery—which previously had galleries in New York, Paris, and Estonia—has taken a new turn. On 1 January, Shchukin and its lawyers Weingrad & Weingrad jointly filed a new lawsuit (first reported in the New York Post) to force New York Supreme Court Justice Paul A. Goetz to hand over a “secret ...