the Judicial claim of the collector of Dmitry Rybolovlev against art-дилера and businessman Yves Bouvier has entered in the top art-скандалов 2015 versions of the portal BLOUINARTINFO, along with the cancellation of the Kyiv Biennale and other unpleasant events.

Both the helper — famous people.

Rybolovlev — billionaire, former owner of Uralkali, now a resident of Monaco, owner of the eponymous football club and a valuable collection of works of art included in top-200 collectors in the world by ARTnews (together with Abramovich, Baibakova and Michelson).

Yves Bouvier — entrepreneur, who comes from transport business, and now the owner of the network reportou around the world and art-дилер. Yves Bouvier is well remembered in Russia. It was he who brought the best galleries of the world in Moscow, as part of the first Salons of fine arts. In those days, since 2004, in the capital brought by Picasso, bacon, de Stael, Kandinsky and other first names. Salons MWFAF by-прежнему remain unsurpassed luxury of the material presented and the level of invited participants.

The more surprising for everyone was the scandal. More precisely, even two scandals that are woven together into one.

the First scandal — lawsuit against Rybolovlev Bouvier for a misrepresentation in the sale of ex works-олигарху. Roughly speaking, instead of taking for their mediation stipulated 2 %, Yves Bouvier has added its "cheating". And a lot of. Estimated Rybolovlev, its size could reach 20 million. Even more simplifying the situation, we can say that Rybolovlev unhappy that highly overpaid Swiss art-дилеру. In fairness, we note that since the price of masterpieces has grown significantly. The same Modigliani, Nude of such class as sold Bouvier can cost under $170 million, not 118. But the train has left, the buyer made a deal, and now dissatisfied with the price. It happens, though and sounds amazing. For example,-то similar has happened in the present case "Alexander Savchuk against Anatoly Bekkerman".

the Second scandal concerns the sale of the collection Rybolovlev allegedly stolen Picasso works. Here, too, tangled and dashing story. The stepdaughter of Picasso — Katherine Uten-Блэ — saw the collection Rybolovlev two of his works that never sold, and stored in the French warehouse, Art Transit, which is operated by the partner of Yves Bouvier Olivier Volume. Works was not listed in the list of stolen items, so a collector and not realized it. In the end, the work of Picasso at an estimated cost of $30 million Rybolovlev voluntarily returned to the stepdaughter of the artist, the daughter of his second wife Jacqueline Roque. And now we are searching for the perpetrator.

In General, passions. And the outcome of the court action, we find at best next year.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: nytimes.com; blouinartinfo.com; colta.ru; artinvestment.ru; tatler.ru; forum.artinvestment.ru