.New york city's Port Shainman Gallery has filed a claim against enthusiast James R. Hedges IV, alleging that he is obligated to repay nearly $300,000 for the sales of 19 artworks that the gallery had consigned to him.
The claim, which was actually submitted in the High court of the State of The Big Apple on Friday, claims that Hedges and his picture, the Santa Monica-- located Hedges Projects, were actually consigned these works via invoices courted between June 2022 as well as May 2024. Hedges as well as his gallery are charged of being obligated to pay $298,772.72.
Hedges has actually called themself "the go-to fella for Warhol digital photography," stating in his profile that he owns the biggest personal selection of photos due to the Pop artist. He has curated shows of Warhol's photos, featuring one in 2020 at Jack Shainman Picture held just before the onset of the pandemic in The big apple. He additionally organized a selling program of Warhol's craft along with Gagosian gallery in 2022.
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The son of an enthusiast of self-taught performers, Hedges centered permanent on craft beginning in 2013, the year that he departed the planet of assets financial, according to the Craft Paper. Besides accumulating art, he has actually served as a trustee to the Dia Craft Structure and also has actually been actually a customer of the Museum of Modern Art in Nyc, the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, as well as the Tate museum system in the UK. He is actually presently manager for the crafts at the the Lodging Bel-Air as well as the Beverly Hillsides Hotel and also Bungalows in Los Angeles.
Jack Shainman Gallery was started in 1984 as well as currently exemplifies musicians including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Kerry James Marshall, Nina Chanel Abney, and also Flower B. Simpson. In January, the picture opened a brand-new 20,000-square-foot room in Tribeca.
Friday's case did certainly not information the artworks Jack Shainman Picture had actually committed to Hedges and his picture, noting merely that the 2 were actually expected to sell these jobs to collectors. Depending on to the satisfy, Hedges and his gallery "maintained as well as made use of those funds for their very own purposes as well as benefit.".
" Hedges Projects is actually saddened to learn more about the suit submitted by Port Shainman Gallery," the picture stated in a claim. "Hedges Projects and also Port Shainman Gallery possess possessed a productive company partnership because 2018. It is unlucky that Jack Shainman Picture made a decision to file a claim while the celebrations reside in the middle of company discussions. Our experts highly disagree with the claim, and strategy to claim counterclaims of our own, if necessary.".
A rep for Port Shainman Picture decreased to comment.