Liu Yiqian made global headlines in 2014 and 2015 by paying top prices for paintings and antiquities but is starting to liquidate some of his artworks.
Tag: Collectors and Collections
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The Market for Nazi Memorabilia Is Huge, Lucrative and Very Disturbing
An SS dagger. Auschwitz cups. Hitler’s globe. If an object played a material role in the Third Reich, then it’s probably for sale. Why do we allow it?
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Tickets to Theater on the Night Lincoln Was Shot Sell for $262,500.
Two bits of green paper for admission to Ford’s Theater on the night of Lincoln’s assassination were sold for $262,500.
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Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead
The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.
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Arsenic Preserved the Animals, But Killed the Museum
A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the “works of art.”