Word: auction
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...University has learned that it wasn’t the only victim of theft whose artwork ended up at an estate auction earlier this month. Several other objects left by the late New York art collector William M.V. Kingsland—including a bust by surrealist painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti—have been confirmed stolen, The New York Times reported yesterday...
Last week, auction house Stair Galleries halted the sale of pieces from Kingsland’s collection when they were discovered to be stolen. Harvard confirmed that two paintings from Stair—one of which is a portrait by John Singleton Copley—were stolen from the University’s collections more than three decades...
...last Monday morning, Stair said, his auction house had halted the sale of 250 objects from Kingsland’s estate...
Stair said that “there was absolutely no way...for any regional auction house to tell” if Kingsland’s belongings were stolen...
...dealer who had bought the paintings at the Kingsland auction was the first person to discover that one had been in the Harvard collections, Stair said. “He’s in part a hero,” Stair said of the dealer...