other pieces, his booth included three Pablo Picasso paintings including Les Femmes d’Alger (Version C), 28 Décembre, 1954 for $16 million. Stating to the New York Times that over the past year collectors had been investing more in "dead and late- and mid-career artists," Nahmad also selected works by Alexander Calder, Claude Monet, Joan Miró, and Mark Rothko. At USD$50 million, Art News related that the 1955 Rothko was "almost certainly the most expensive work in the fair." From November 4, 2015 through January 2016, the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York ran the Mnemosyne: de Chirico and Antiquity exhibition, which displayed "Giorgio de Chirico’s surrealist 20th century works together with Greek and Roman antiquities" such as ancient statues and Greek vases. For the show, Nahmad partnered with antiquities dealer Phoenix Ancient Art to curate a collection of pieces from private collections. Blouin Artinfo wrote that the show was "an aesthetic move that matches de Chirico’s Neo-classical style, a later and less explored side of his work." In 2011, Philippe Meastracci, the heir of art dealer Oscar Stettiner, filed suit in United States district court against the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York for title to the 1918 Modigliani painting Seated Man with a Cane, which was estimated to have a value of $25 million. Maestracci claimed that the painting, which had been sold in 1996 through Christie's for $3.2 million, had been looted from Stettiner in Paris during World War II. The complaint was withdrawn in 2012. In November 2015, Stettiner's estate filed an amended complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York again seeking title to Seated Man with a Cane from various Nahmad family members and the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York. Arbitration was ongoing as of April 2016, with the defendants arguing that the painting had been legally purchased in good faith from Christie's, that Stettiner's claim of ownership was unproven, and that the Stettiner estate's case was bankrolled by individuals with a financial conflict of interest. In 2016, Nahmad’s gallery organized and held the exhibition Selected Works by 20th Century Masters. That December at Art Basel, Nahmad sold the painting Made in Japan I by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $15 million. Several days later Bloomberg described the transaction as "the highest price so far at the event." Personal life Nahmad resides in New York City, where he has owned property in Trump