A Manhattan art dealer who settled a suit last year involving a fake painting that had been attributed to Robert Motherwell is being sued for selling another work from the same collection as a Motherwell, the Courthouse News Service reported on Tuesday.
The work is part of a large cache of art attributed to Modernist masters that the F.B.I. is investigating as possible forgeries.
The dealer, Julian Weissman, sold the painting in 2004 to Sheikha Paula Al-Sabah of Kuwait. The suit state thats Mr. Weissman got the painting from Glafira Rosales, a Long Island dealer who is a target of the F.B.I. investigation.
Knoedler & Company, which closed last year, sold more than two dozen works from Ms. Rosales, who has denied any wrongdoing. One of them was the subject of a $17 million federal lawsuit that was settled last week.
The suit against Mr. Weissman was filed by Dar Noor Ltd., a British Virgin Islands corporation that i s owned in trust for the children of the sheikha.
The court papers assert that Mr. Weissman told her that the painting had come from an anonymous Swiss-Jewish owner. Ms. Weissman paid $350,000 for the painting and is seeking $3 million in compensatory damages as well as unspecified punitive damages.
A lawyer for Mr. Weissman could not be reached for comment.
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