On Oct. 25, the Cleveland Auction Co. in Tremont, Ohio, sold a 4-foot tall garden statue for $100,000 – plus an $18,000 commission for the auctioneer. The piece, a woman carrying a water vessel, was created in Paris in 1931 by Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar (1891-1934), known as the father of modern Egyptian art for whom a museum is dedicated in Cairo. How the sculpture ended up hidden in a Cleveland garden is a mystery....