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Monday, August 24, 2009

Robin Symes: Overview

Here are earlier stories on Robin Symes. They are normally ordered with the most recent stories first.
  • Overview of Symes material returned to Italy and Greece

Italy
  • Italy seeking to claim antiquities held as assets
  • Dispersal of assets begins
  • Rutelli and cultural diplomacy
  • Nostoi list
Ex Symes material in public collections
  • Amsterdam
  • The Berlin Hatshepsut
  • Cleveland Museum of Art 
  • Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum 
  • Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum list
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • New York - figure in memory of Christo Michailidis
  • University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville
Ex Symes material in private collections
  • Bronze figure
  • Shelby White and Leon Levy
  • Shelby White returns antiquities to Italy 
  • Bronze kouros 
  • Stanford Place collection
  • Tempelsman collection
Schinoussa
  • Medieval frescoes seized 
  • Objects on display
  • Photographic archive seized
Bonhams
  • Bronze sold at auction
  • Reaction to disrupted sale
  • Apulian krater withdrawn from sale
  • Krater in sale 
  • Press reaction to Symes material at sale
  • Library for sale
  • Bonhams respond to Rutelli 
  • Bonhams urged to halt sale 
  • Rutelli on Symes
  • Appearance of krater in forthcoming sale

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Detail of Apulian krater once in the 'Robin Symes collection'
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