In this Feb. 28, 2014, photo provided by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a stage curtain painted by Pablo Picasso hangs on a wall at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. Plans to move the 1919 canvas from the Four Seasons has touched off a dispute between a prominent preservation group against an art-loving real estate magnate.By JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press
NEW YORK – New York’s storied Four Seasons restaurant has for decades harbored one of the city’s more unusual artworks: the largest Pablo Picasso painting in the United States. But a plan to move it has touched off a spat as sharply drawn as the bullfight crowd the canvas depicts.
Pitting a prominent preservation group against an art-loving real estate magnate, the dispute has unleashed an outcry from culture commentators and a lawsuit featuring dueling squads of art experts.
The building’s owner says Picasso’s “Le Tricorne,” a 19-by-20-foot painted stage curtain, has to be moved from the restaurant to make way for repairs to the wall behind it.