Iran-born painter Nicky Nodjoumi accompanied his New York gallery, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, to the Art Dubai fair, where he sold a large triptych drawing for $36,000. Seven months later, Nodjoumi says he still hasn’t received his half of the proceeds from the sale, or for several other works sold by the gallery over the years. So, he’s hired a lawyer.
It’s hardly the first time that an artist — or a freelancer of any other stripe — has complained about art dealers paying late, if at all. It’s not even the first time such charges have hit Priska Juschka’s gallery, which closed its space in Chelsea last year after sculptor Dana Melamed sued for her 50-percent share of sales brokered by the gallery at the 2009 Pulse art fair in Basel.
