Sotheby's provide the Pan with the following collecting history: "French private collection, Fontainebleau, acquired circa 1975".
What is the identity of the anonymous French collection? What does the association with Hydra Galerie imply?
Friday 6 December 2013
The Medici Pan
Sotheby's New York are due to auction a giallo antico marble bust of Pan next week (December 12, 2013, lot 51). The estimate is $10,000-$15,000. Dr Christos Tsirogiannis has pointed out to me that a polaroid image of the sculpture was found on the Geneva Freeport premises of Giacomo Medici. The image is stapled to a form for the Hydra Galerie, an outlet linked to Medici (and see also here).
Sotheby's provide the Pan with the following collecting history: "French private collection, Fontainebleau, acquired circa 1975".
What is the identity of the anonymous French collection? What does the association with Hydra Galerie imply?
Sotheby's provide the Pan with the following collecting history: "French private collection, Fontainebleau, acquired circa 1975".
What is the identity of the anonymous French collection? What does the association with Hydra Galerie imply?
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