The eventual fate of the collection has already caused controversy in Mexico amid fears it may be damaged en route to Spain.
Works by Ascribed to Manohar, Mughal India and Mahmud [IBN Ishaq] Al-Shahabi were among the 86% of lots selling above their low estimate at Christie's 'The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Indian Painting and Calligraphy' auction on April 28 in London. The sale totaled $7.15m (GBP5.28m), exceeding the pre-sale high estimate.
The painting was one of three stolen from an Italian museum last month.
The portable buildings designed by the French modernist are now cult collectibles and they sell for $2m to $12m. Patrick Seguin, who heads to TEFAF New York with the designer's furniture, has several on offer at his estate in the South of France.
Lucian Freud’s Portrait of Francis Bacon was stolen from Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie while on loan from the Tate in 1988. Almost 40 years later, a detective believes he might have found the culprit.
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