"Provenance," he sneered ...

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"Provenance," he sneered ...

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As you should be aware, the antiquities market has lately been roiled by a multifaceted 'cancel culture' along several fronts. Major auctions have been terminated abruptly; collections and museums are subject to academic and donor protests and demands to repatriate artefacts for this reason or that. And now, uber-rich dealers (i.e. traffickers) to the most famous museums -- and the World's 1% -- are going to jail. Strange days indeed.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/an-ar ... ed-2388183

The Cairo-based Simonian family were expat Armenian arms dealers (in WW2 and the 1956 War w/ Israel) who moved into a different market decades ago. But still: jail's no fun at 80, for peddling whatever's illegal, looted, etc.
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