Pace Embroiled in $1 M. Lawsuit Over Contested Louise Nevelson Sculpture

Days before a Louise Nevelson sculpture was scheduled to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May 2022, one of the most powerful figures in the late artist’s market, Arne Glimcher, declared it inauthentic. Now the consigner is suing Pace Gallery claiming the reversal was about control.In 1993, Glimcher—founder of the gallery and Louise Nevelson’s primary dealer and close confidant during her lifetime—appraised a stacked-wood wall sculpture attributed to the artist