{"id":94418,"date":"2025-09-30T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94418\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:42:14","slug":"a-bankrupt-financier-s-is-trying-to-sell-a-36-5-m-monet-to-pay-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94418\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bankrupt Financier s Is Trying to Sell a $36.5 M. Monet to Pay Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFinancier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/george-allen-weiss\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-allen-weiss\" data-tag=\"george-allen-weiss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Allen Weiss<\/a> is seeking to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/claude-monet\/\" id=\"auto-tag_claude-monet\" data-tag=\"claude-monet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Monet<\/a>\u2019s Nymph\u00e9as (1914\u201317) to help pay down debt, according to recent court filings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe painting, measuring 53 \u215b by 57 \u00bd inches, is slated to be sold for $36.5 million to an unnamed buyer represented by attorney Jennifer Morris, pending approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWeiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-04\/fund-founder-george-weiss-files-bankruptcy-over-jefferies-debt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed<\/a> for bankruptcy in June, several months after a federal judge ruled that he was liable for more than $100 million in debt tied to his hedge fund, Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, which owes that sum to Jefferies Strategic Investments. Founded in 1978, the fund was once valued at $2.3 billion, and Weiss himself has been described as a pioneer of the industry, according to Bloomberg. The fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-05-14\/how-a-46-year-old-hedge-fund-went-bankrupt-without-a-blowup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed<\/a> for bankruptcy in 2024. In his own petition, Weiss also listed a $180 million claim from the Internal Revenue Service, which he is disputing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759225334_388_CLAUDE-MONET-Nympheas-1.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759225334_388_CLAUDE-MONET-Nympheas-1.jpg\" alt=\"Claude Monet's Nymph\u00e9as (1907) has a low estimate at Christie's auction house of $40 million.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Monet\u2014held through Weiss\u2019s GW Crown Holdings LLC\u2014is being sold to cover $123 million in debt owed to Bank of America. While a buyer has been lined up, the sale remains subject to qualified bids and, if necessary, an auction at the Miami offices of the law firm Venable LLP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a limited objection filed Friday, Jefferies asked the court to compel Weiss to disclose the identity of the prospective buyer. The firm pointed to the sale of another comparable Monet \u201cWater Lilies\u201d painting\u2014 Nymph\u00e9as (1914\u201317), which once belong to Sydell Miller\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/monet-painting-nympheas-sothebys-modern-art-sales-november-auctions-new-york-sydell-miller-1234724242\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for $65.5 million at a Sotheby\u2019s evening sale<\/a> last November after 17-minute bidding war. Jefferies argued that Weiss should be required to prove that the buyer \u201cis not an insider and has not directly or indirectly agreed to provide consideration (other than customary brokerage fees) to any party other than the debtor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA hearing on the motion is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Financier George Allen Weiss is seeking to sell Claude Monet\u2019s Nymph\u00e9as (1914\u201317) to help pay down debt, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,50445,366,18,117,61034,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-94418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-claude-monet","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-george-allen-weiss","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}