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Basquiat Work Goes Missing in Croatian Star’s Divorce

April 27, 2015 by Marion Maneker

Basquiat, Wine of Babylon
Basquiat, Wine of Babylon

Courthouse News Service reports that Basquiat has become the issue in a Croatian pop star’s divorce.

G&G Productions sued Croatian actress and singer Rita Rusic on April 16, seeking the return of neo-expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Wine of Babylon,” which Vittorio Cecchi Gori purchased from a gallery in 1988 for $330,000.

Gori assigned the painting to G&G, but apparently kept the work in Rome at the home he shared with Rusic.

The painting went missing when Gori and Rusic broke up, and G&G says Rusic “stole the ‘Wine of Babylon'” – although she has denied keeping it or even knowing where it is, the complaint states.

Courthouse News Service

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