“Sotheby’s respects and maintains the confidentiality of shippers and buyers and does not comment on matters that are not publicly recorded,” the statement said. 1994 auction. “
Chagall had been hanging on the wall of the bedroom that Clegg shared with her husband Alfred John Clegg for years. After that, she moved to a small house and put it in her vault. She said it was there when Sotheby’s suggested that if she was interested in selling merchandise in early 2020, especially Chagall might work. The work was then sent to Komite Marc Chagall, a committee of experts founded in 1988 to determine the authenticity of the work belonging to the artist.
In late 2020, the panel published findings on her work. In a letter to Mr. Craig, one of Chagall’s granddaughters and a member of the panel, Meret Meyer unanimously discovered that the work was not genuine and called “Le Couples O Bouquet”. He added that it was a fusion of several other works, including. , “From around 1952,” Lesamoureux aucheval “from 1961.
Mr. Craig’s paintings included “repeated iconographic elements of Chagall’s work,” such as bouquets, lovers, horse profiles, rooster profiles, village silhouettes, and crescent moons, but the Commission said to them. States that it lacked a “real presence.” A translation provided by Mr. Craig’s lawyer. The letter further stated that Chagall’s heirs demanded a “judicial seizure” of the painting “so that the work would be destroyed.”
In France, the court grants the authority of an expert panel to destroy works that are determined to be counterfeit.
