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...Rothkos from the court's jurisdiction. Not so, said Lloyd, producing documents to show that in January and February of 1972 - months before the injunction was is sued in June - he had sold the 35 Rothkos to four wealthy collectors, including 20 to Italian Industrialist Count Paolo Marinotti...
...more startling. Rothko's much-traveled paintings went almost immediately back to Europe, this time by costly air freight. Ross thinks it significant that they were rushed back directly after the injunction against sales went into action on June 23. By June 29, Ross claimed, 19 of Marinotti's 20 Rothkos, among others, were in a warehouse in Zurich where, if they had not yet been sold, they would have been out of U.S. jurisdiction. In Ross's view, this haste suggests an intent to de fraud. In Marlborough's, it is merely evidence...
...funny thing happened, however, to 14 of Marinotti's paintings. They were included in a Rothko retrospective that toured Europe, finishing on May 8 at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris. But when the show closed, the Rothkos were shipped back to Marlborough in New York, rather than to their alleged owner Marinotti in Europe...
...Franco Marinotti, president of Milan's SNIA Viscosa and an old hand at bargaining with Russians, has his own rule of thumb: speak fluent Russian, offer long-term credit and toss down vodka like a Russian. He does all three...
...Vinci Complex. Like Marinotti-who paints passable landscapes under the name "Francesco Torri"-many a North Italian businessman takes as his personal hero that versatile Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci, and like Da Vinci is not deterred from any enterprise by lack of experience. A prime example is Count Gaetano Marzotto, 67, whose family-owned Marzotto Textile is Italy's biggest wool spinner and producer of readymade clothes. Several years ago, enraged by an all-night bout with bedbugs in a Sicilian hotel, Marzotto set out to build his own hotels in Italy's remote places. Clean, simple...