Showing posts with label Sotheby's Auction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sotheby's Auction. Show all posts
August 3, 2017

Opensource Reprint: Nekyia “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”

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Given the recent interest in the July 31, 2017 article in the New York Times regarding the Python bell-krater depicting Dionysos with Thyro...
August 1, 2017

Three years in the making: The case of “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” results in seizure.

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On June 1, 2014 this blog published a distilled version of an academic investigation which heavily documented details from an article in t...
November 23, 2014

Essay: Do you think art collectors might be tempted to buy Syrian antiquities (looted or otherwise?). We say resoundingly, yes.

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By Lynda Albertson On November 22, 2014 the Syrian Arabic Republic - Ministry of Culture's Directorate General of Antiquities and ...
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June 1, 2014

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Python bell-krater acquired in 1989 matches object documented in confiscated Medici archive, according to forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis: "The evidence suggests that the vase has most likely been unlawfully removed from Italian soil"

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Medici polaroid of Python's bell-krater  The Classic Greek mixing-bowl attributed to the artist Python (active ca. 350 – 325 BC) o...
April 22, 2014

Looted Artifacts from Peru: A story of grave robbing from the 1970s

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief The story of how a woman in the 70s supported her traveling in South America by smuggli...
February 1, 2014

Libération's Vincent Noce Reports on Belgian Heiress' Claim Against Sotheby's for Alleged Fraud Regarding Sale of Stamp Collection

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Libération : Among the missing items, the original design of the envelope  "BelgianArctic Expedition" of 1957. (Photo CD) by...
December 30, 2013

Was the repatriation of a footless 10th century statue to Cambodia this month related to Sotheby's history of selling Khmer pieces with "no published provenance" or "weak" collecting histories?

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This month's repatriation of a 10th century footless sandstone statue looted from an archaeological site in Cambodia has a backstory g...
December 13, 2013

Duryodhana statue from Prasat Chen, Cambodia: "Voluntary" Repatriation by Sotheby's and consigner

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By Lynda Albertson, ARCA's CEO This morning the New York Times reported that consigner Decia Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa and Sotheby...

Sotheby's sells Symes marble matched by Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis in the Schinousa archives for more than $4.6 million today; Sotheby's withdraws The Medici Pan; and Christie's in NY aims to sell Symes Pan tomorrow

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Looting Matters: Hermes-Thoth Image: Schinousa Archive Today Sotheby's auction house in New York sold an ancient marble head for ...
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November 22, 2013

Museum van Bommel van Dam Theft: Art Investigator Arthur Brand provides an update

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From the Netherlands, Art investigator Arthur Brand has an update in the case in which he helped return two of the paintings stolen in Marc...
August 21, 2013

Museum van Bommel van Dam Theft: Arthur Brand on recovering paintings and how one stolen painting reached Sotheby's in London

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Last night art investigator Arthur Brand sent me a link to the story in Dutch News.nl  ...