Thursday, 4 June 2015
From an old Montecito collection
When a Palmyrene sculpture appears on the market you would expect the auction house to provide an authenticated collecting history. "Acquired prior to 1996" sounds rather imprecise and suggests that there is no documented collecting history showing the sculpture's origins.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The Oxford Papyri Scandal: "a crime against culture and knowledge of immense proportions"
The Guardian has an extended review of what will probably become known as the Oxford Papyri Scandal (Charlotte Higgins, " A scandal ...
-
Christie's is due to display part of the former collection of the late George Ortiz in London in a non-selling show to mark the 25th a... -
I have been watching (UK) Channel 4's Time Team this evening. The programme looked at an undisclosed field (under a potato crop) where a...
-
It was announced today that the Egyptian authorities would be taking legal action against Christie's over the sale of the head of Tuta...
No comments:
Post a Comment