Vekselberg is suing Christie's because Kustodiev
This week began the trial did Viktor Vekselberg against the auction house Christie's for the painting "Odalisque", which is a collector finds fake Kustodiev
Boris Kustodiev (
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this week on Wednesday at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has begun 19-day hearing on the case against Christie's. 56-year-old Russian tycoon and art collector Viktor Vekselberg, accuses the auction house to sell it in 2005 fake paintings. The painting "Odalisque" for which the collector paid 1.7 million pounds were sold as work , but , as claimed by the plaintiff, the signature on the painting came some years after his death.
Representatives of the Fund Aurora Fine Arts, owned by Viktor Vekselberg, has discovered a problem in 2006; lawsuit filed Vekselberg in 2010 , and now after 19 days it finally resolved.
In the picture there is a small sign Kustodiev in Russian and the date "1919", but cracelures colorful surface suggests that the signature belongs to the late 1940s. So, at least, experts say the plaintiff. Kustodiev died in 1927, and the picture used pigments containing aluminum, which are not widely used until 1927.
Christie's experts stand firmly on its original attribution of "Odalisque" and are ready to Kustodiev their expertise canvas. Defendants believe that the technique, the plot and other similarities with other works Kustodiev leave no doubt that the work is authentic. In addition, the aluminum-containing pigments appeared in 1919, though they were a novelty for artists.
Now there is a dispute about whether it is possible to carry out further research work. Experts Aurora Fine Arts want to "cross test" signatures to determine whether traces of dust between the surface of the canvas and colorful autograph. If they can find, it will confirm the version of the plaintiffs that signed the much later work. Christie's specialist, James Eldridge (James Aldridge) opposes this examination, because it believes it is too traumatic for the picture.
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
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