Two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yank Barry and a New Jersey art dealer have come to terms after a bitter personal attack stemming from a raffle of rare Edgar Degas sculptures last year.
According to the “Courthouse News Service,” The Degas Sculpture Project, a New Jersey art dealer, retracted its statements about Global Village and Barry last Monday in a statement from both parties announcing a settlement.
“Simple misunderstanding regrettable escalated unnecessarily into litigation,” the parties said in a press release.
The Degas Sculpture Project claimed that it discovered and purchased the rights to a set of 75 previously unknown plaster casts made from Degas’ original wax sculptures, including a plaster of his famous work “La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans.”
The art dealer filed a complaint last July s claiming that Yank Barry, founder of the hunger charity Global Village Champions Foundation (GVCF), contracted to buy at least two sets of the bronzes and to fund the purchase through a charity raffle.
“Courthouse News” reports the complaint stated Barry instead “absconded [with] these works, abandoned the raffle or any other purpose related to GVCF’s stated charitable purposes and has even resold or offered these items for resale and/or for services performed by others for his personal or financial gain.”
The Degas Sculpture Project, however, has since recanted its statement.
“To set the record straight, Global Village Champions Foundation, Inc. is not an instrumentality of fraud, but rather a very worth charitable organization that works to eradicate hunger around the world,” the press release states. “The Degas Sculpture Project Ltd. has the utmost respect for Mr. Barry, a two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, in that goal, and we fully commend Global Village Champions Foundation Inc. for its international humanitarian efforts.”
About Global Village Champions Foundation: Started in 1995 by Yank Barry, Global Village Champions Foundation strives to become the undisputed world leader in private, humanitarian delivery of nutrition to needy persons across the globe, while sustaining human life and helping to eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth. With the help of donors and notable figures such as Muhammad Ali, Gary US Bonds, and Evander Holyfield, the nonprofit has provided nearly a billion meals to the hungry around the world.
Learn more about Global Village Champions Foundation: http://www.gogvc.com or visit its YouTube channel.
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