Transparency Is Top Of Mind For New Era At Sotheby's
Dmitry Rybolovlev aimed to upend the art market and hold Sotheby's accountable for opaque sales. Did he succeed in the latest installment of the Bouvier Affair?
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Dmitry Rybolovlev aimed to upend the art market and hold Sotheby's accountable for opaque sales. Did he succeed in the latest installment of the Bouvier Affair?
Dmitry Rybolovlev had accused the auction house of conspiring with a Swiss dealer to overcharge him for works by da Vinci, Klimt and others.
Sotheby's was cleared by a New York jury of allegations that it helped a dealer defraud a Russian billionaire, likely ending a nearly decade-old battle
A jury in the Manhattan federal court in New York ruled in favor of Sotheby's, at a civil trial in which Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of helping Yves Bouvier defraud him.
A federal jury on Tuesday ruled in favor of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of defrauding him out of tens of millions of dollars in art sales.