Lawrence Kaye

Practice Areas

Larry represents domestic and international clients in complex litigations and commercial transactions. He is noted for representing foreign governments, victims of the Holocaust, families of renowned artists and other claimants in the recovery of art and antiquities.

Larry has represented museums, families and foreign governments in connection with a variety of cultural property matters, including: the Republic of Turkey; the heirs of the Russian artist, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich in their claims against New York's Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Marei von Saher, the sole heir of the noted Dutch dealer and collector, Jacques Goudstikker, in connection with the restitution of Nazi looted art works from the Dutch Government and museums and collections throughout the world.

He has represented leading art world stakeholders in a variety of complex litigations and transactional art matters, including: the estate of art collector Frances Lasker Brody in the historic sale of its collection at Christie's; Leon D. Black, in an international dispute over the ownership of Pablo Picasso’s "Bust of a Woman” plaster sculpture; and Neue Galerie New York in its historic acquisition of Gustav Klimt's painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, "The Woman in Gold."