Art Market Monitor

What happens when two art dealers do business together and then have a relationship? In Singapore, they get into a fight over $200,000 worth of merchandise, according to the Straits Times:

Managing director Subhash Kapoor of Art of the Past is taking on Ms Paramaspry Punusamy, the proprietor of Jazmin Asian Arts The 61-year-old American national is claiming that the Singaporean is refusing to return 15 artefacts as well as US$15,000 (S$21,000) in sales proceeds after their break-up two years ago. [...] She is prepared to return nine items if he gives up some 20 of her artefacts that are in his hands.

Art Dealer Sues Local Agent (Straits Times)

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