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Message:: [QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 17699, member: 32"]Chelsea gallery cannot, will not return Dr. Seuss artworks, collectors' lawsuit says <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/box-suit-missing-seuss-art-article-1.1503476" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/box-suit-missing-seuss-art-article-1.1503476" rel="nofollow">http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/box-suit-missing-seuss-art-article-1.1503476</a> excerpts: A pair of art collectors filed suit against a Manhattan auction house on Thursday for failing to return two rare pieces of original<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Dr.+Seuss" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Dr.+Seuss" rel="nofollow">Theodor Geisel</a>, aka Dr. Seuss, artwork. The pieces were preliminary covers for the beloved author's 1986 classic "You're Only Old Once: A Book for Obsolete Children," one of the few Seuss books he did expressly for adults. Collectors James Otis and Clifford David say they bought the pieces back in 2008, and turned to the Illustration House in Chelsea when they were interested in selling them in November 2012.Under the terms of their deal with the auction house, which specializes in selling artwork from famous illustrators, the auctioneer had 60 days to find a buyer, or it would return the drawings to Otis and David. "Shortly after the expiration of 60 day consignment period, plaintiff Otis began contacting Illustration House, Inc. by telephone and electronic mail requesting the return of the two Dr. Seuss artworks," the suit says. In April, the auction house said the pieces were "missing," and they'd notified Otis and David as soon as they were found, the suit says. In the meantime, the pair missed a chance to show the works in another gallery, and had to turn away a prospective buyer, the court papers say.[/QUOTE]

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