Fraud, or Just a Bad Deal? Oligarch and Sotheby’s to Battle in Court Over Rarefied Art Trade

Fraud, or Just a Bad Deal? Oligarch and Sotheby’s to Battle in Court Over Rarefied Art Trade

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A trial this week in New York City examines whether Sotheby’s sold artworks to a private adviser knowing he would flip them in resales for millions more. Hell hath no fury like an art collector allegedly overcharged. Between 2003 and 2014, Russian fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev ’s family…

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