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Colección Mariano Moret @ColeccionMMoret [ Translated from Spanish]
"Despite having spent more than 25 years buying art in the international market and having seen it all, I still find myself amazed when I see pieces as absolutely exceptional as this Roman emperor torso from the Julio-Claudian period (1st century BC) coming from a private collection that @Sothebys will put up for auction next October with an estimated price of 8,000,000 – 12,000,000 USD. We will have to wait for the publication of the catalogue by the auction house to see if data are provided on the provenance of the work."
2 comments:
Minor correction: the Julio-Claudian period begins with Augustus and ends with Nero. So it’s not just the 1st c BC, it’s c. 27 BC to c. 68 AD. Anyway, it’s hard to believe a torso like this just came out of nowhere.
How did this torso get to New York? Carefully packed by specialists and complete with papers sufficient to get it through US Customs. How do you think? Was it illegally exported from somewhere? Of course it was, but prove it. Not only that, given its Roman Imperialness, pick a Mediterranean country you’d like it to have come from.
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