Anonymous Swiss Collector

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Stolen painting? No: poor reporting.

Posted on 18 April 2014

The false theft and return of a fake of my favourite Colonial Latin American painting.

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So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend

Posted on 25 March 2013

Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.

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Valdivia Figurines and the appeal of ‘the oldest’

Posted on 19 September 2012

The logo for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture website is about my favourite thing

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