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- Title
Something is Confi dential in the State of Christie's.
- Authors
Tsirogiannis, Christos
- Abstract
This article is a report on the appearance of "toxic" antiquities, offered by Christie's at auctions in London and New York during 2012, which have now been identified in the confiscated archives of the convicted dealers Giacomo Medici and Robin Symes. The research aims to reconstruct the true modern story and full collecting history of seven antiquities: a bronze boar, a terracotta ship, a pair of kraters, a terracotta statue of a boy, a kylix, and a marble head. New evidence in each case presents a different version of the collecting history from that offered by Christie's. This paper, going in order through the Christie's 2012 antiquities auctions, demonstrates that in many instances the market uses the term "confidentiality" to conceal the identities of its disgraced members, and to put an end to academic or other research for the truth. It also reveals that most of the dealers, galleries, collectors and auction houses listed by Christie's as previous owners have been involved in several other cases of illicit antiquities.
- Subjects
ART auctions; CHRISTIE'S Inc.; ANTIQUITIES; MEDICI, Giacomo; SYMES, Robin
- Publication
Journal of Art Crime, 2013, Issue 9, p3
- ISSN
1947-5934
- Publication type
Article