Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction

Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction

A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million) at auction last weekend. The piece, Le Désespoir (ca. 1892–93), had gone unnoticed by its owners until...
East End Art Dealer Jailed in Landmark Terror Financing Case

East End Art Dealer Jailed in Landmark Terror Financing Case

London – In a landmark prosecution, art dealer and television personality Oghenochuko Ojiri has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for selling artworks to a suspected Hezbollah financier without declaring the transactions. Ojiri, 53, admitted to eight...