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The issue of the authenticity of Wildenstein paintings also came up in 1992 when the New York developer Arnold Gumowitz sued Wildenstein & Co., claiming that Peasant Laboring, a painting attributed to Georges Seurat that he had bought for $600,000 from the gallery in 1987, had been questioned by a curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also claimed that the man who authenticated the painting had been paid by the Wildensteins. According to Gumovitz’s attorney, John Hughes, in 1995, the case was settled in a confidential out-of-court agreement. (English)