Showing posts with label Sotheby's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sotheby's. Show all posts
April 23, 2024

When a money launderer's art collection comes up for auction

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Photo Credit ANP Once upon a time, the individual pictured above, Jan-Dirk Paarlberg had a prominent place in the Quote 500,  with a fortune...
August 7, 2021

Sothebys, Inc. Fine Art Auctions Miami and Thut et al

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On August 3, 2021, Sotheby's filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Frédéric Thut, Betti...
June 24, 2020

Another looted conflict antiquity from the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon, Lebanon seized. This time at Royal Athena Galleries in New York

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Left Image provided by the NYDA's Office and HSI-ICE Right Image from Royal-Athena Galleries catalog When speaking of the effect...
September 7, 2019

The interesting fate of Joshua Reynolds' painting "A Young Girl and Her Dog", stolen in 1984.

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Image Credit Left: www.thecatalogstar.com Image Credit Right: Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (TFAM) In 1984 a portrait of young lady Elizabeth M...
September 11, 2018

Restitution: An Attic Marble Anthemion from a Grave Stele returned to Greece

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On June 9, 2017 forensic archaeologist Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, wrote to ARCA and to the Art and Antiques Unit of London's Metropo...
December 1, 2016

Just another day, living in gangsta...I mean art market...paradise...

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“History is subjective. History is alterable. History is, finally, little more than modeling clay in a very warm room.” ― Bradford Morrow, ...
November 18, 2015

Price and Provenance

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Record prices were achieved at auctions last week with Chinese billionaires leading the way. On the 11th of November, a Hong Kong tycoo...
February 5, 2015

Pieter Paul Rubens, “The daughters of Cetrops find the serpent-shaped baby”

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Posted originally in its entirety with permission from the author and Plundered Art.  The daughters of Cetrops find the serpent-shaped ...
December 5, 2014

Opinion: More Questions Than Solutions from the Auction Houses

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By Lynda Albertson Following the successful identification and the subsequent withdrawal of the Sardinian idol, Dr. Christos Tsirogiann...
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