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Sotheby’s Disputed Pre-Columbian Sale Still Sets Record

March 26, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Tom Mashberg at the New York Times points out that Sotheby’s pre-Columbian sale in Paris made more than the previous five years of sales:

Sotheby’s weekend sale in Paris of pre-Columbian artifacts earned about $13.3 million, well below the pre-sale estimate of $19 million to $23 million, according to the auction house.

Four Latin American nations — Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Costa Rica — had objected to the sale, and the controversy was publicized heavily in the European media. About half the items from the Barbier-Mueller collection sold in the face of assertions by the four nations that more than 100 of the 313 lots had been illegally exported in the 1900s.

Sale of Pre-Columbian Art Falls Short of Expectations (ArtsBeat)

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