Sale of 不景気-時代 絵 draws a 連邦の 訴訟
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) ― A New Jersey art 売買業者 trying to sell a 不景気-時代 絵 online has gotten an 申し込む／申し出 ― a 訴訟 from the 連邦の 政府.
The feds とじ込み／提出するd a 訴訟 last week to lay （人命などを）奪う，主張する to a 絵 that Cherry Hill art 売買業者 Matthew Schwartz 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d on eBay for $8,500 in October 2015.
Schwartz told the 特使-地位，任命する (http://on.cpsj.com/1Za88uN ) that he will argue that the U.S. General Services 行政 has no 権利 to the "1934 農業者" 絵 that he 購入（する）d several years ago and carefully 回復するd.
The GSA said that the 絵 was created more than 80 years ago by John Slavin, who was 雇うd through a 不景気 時代 program for artists.
Schwartz, who runs an online art dealership, said the only 推論する／理由 the GSA wants the oil-on-canvas 絵 of a man smoking a 麻薬を吸う is because he saved it.
"It's my care for the 絵 that makes it 望ましい," he said.
Since 2001, the GSA has been 追求するing the return of "lost and stolen" artwork （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d under the 作品 進歩 行政, said spokeswoman Sarah Breen.
More than 460 作品 valued at about $4.3 million have been 回復するd during that period, she said.
The GSA 回復するd 54 pieces of WPA art 価値（がある） about $500,000 from April through September 2015, によれば its 最新の 議会 報告（する）／憶測.
回復するd artworks will 最終的に be placed on 貸付金 to 会・原則s across the country for 陳列する，発揮する, the GSA said.
The 連邦の （民事の）告訴 とじ込み／提出するd May 23 against Schwartz said that 政府-（売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d 作品 初めは were "貸付金d or 配分するd" to 政府 （独立の）存在s, nonprofits and 税金-supported organizations.
The 控訴 said that "it was 明確に 明言する／公表するd that the 連邦の 政府 would 持つ／拘留する 十分な 合法的な 肩書を与える to artwork on long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 貸付金."
Slavin's 絵 was held for １０年間s by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, which 性質の／したい気がして of it in 1990, Schwartz said.
Schwartz didn't 申し込む／申し出 その上の 詳細（に述べる）s about his 購入（する） of the work.
But the 訴訟 競うs that "inactivity" and "neglect" don't 影響する／感情 the 政府's 所有権 and that only 議会 can 権限を与える the 処分 of 連邦の 所有物／資産／財産.
The （民事の）告訴 also （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that Schwartz's sales 申し込む／申し出 最初 特記する／引用するd the 絵's でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる, which had a 作品 進歩 行政 plaque. It said those 言及／関連s disappeared after the GSA 接触するd Schwartz, who pulled the 絵 from eBay and then 申し込む／申し出d it again for three days in November 2015 for $10,500.
Schwartz said sales of WPA artworks are ありふれた.
"There's 商業 in these 絵s every day," he said. "They have entire photography auctions where every piece is stamped 'WPA'."
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（警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） from: 特使-地位，任命する (Cherry Hill, N.J.), http://www.courierpostonline.com/
