Row sparks over Jack Kevorkian’s paintings

Jack Kevorkian, the initiator of the idea of assisting terminally ill patients with committing suicide, has again caught media spotlight over an ownership row of the doctor's art.

According to Huffington Post, a Massachusetts museum balked at handing over 17 paintings by the figurehead of the right-to-die movement that are scheduled to be auctioned on October 28 to raise money for a children's cancer charity.

The Armenian Library and Museum of America housed the contested oil works since Kevorkian's 1999 conviction for second-degree murder.

Kevorkian's attorney told The Huffington Post that the paintings were loaned to the museum for safekeeping and that a signed agreement with the curator stipulated the artworks would be returned upon request.

"The only reason they got [the paintings] was because Jack trusted them," said Mayer Morganroth in Michigan.

"Now when they realize there might be some value in them, they try to hold onto them. It's outrageous," Morganroth added.