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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, July 11, 2011

A painting by Berthe Morisot that was confiscated, along with many other missing artworks, from the Wildenstein Institute in Paris by the French police.

Art dealer Guy Wildenstein faces criminal charges
Independent - July 8th, 2011 20:02

Billionaire art dealer Guy Wildenstein, who is based in Paris and New York, has been formally accused of fraud after 30 valuable paintings and sculptures that had been missing for decades turned up in a police raid of his family's institute in Paris. Mr Wildenstein claims the works found stored in a basement, including Edgar Degas drawings allegedly looted by the Nazis and a Berthe Morisot painting belonging to a client's heir, were "an oversight or error" made by his late father. He has ...

Set of four 18th-century Chinese vases bought by Steve Wynn at Christie's on July 7.

Steve Wynn drops $12.8m on vases for Macau resort

Hotel and casino mogul Steve Wynn purchased four 18th-century Chinese porcelain vases at a London auction Thursday night to decorate his new resort in Macau for 8 million pounds ($12.8 ...

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