The Bouguereau Blow-up: New lawsuit entails from nuns' sale to art dealers
- August 27, 2009 14:05
Last April news broke about a group of cloistered nuns from upstate New York who sold a major work by French artist William Adolphe Bouguereau. The buyer was art dealer Mark LaSalle, who was representing Santa Fe dealer Mark Zaplin. After $50,000 of restoration work to the painting, Zaplin reportedly flipped it for $2 million. The nuns and their bishop cried foul. But a new countersuit filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York claims that the nuns were not, in fact, victims.
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