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Photo by Simon de Pury. Every month in The Hammer, art-industry veteran Simon de Pury lifts the curtain on his life as the ultimate art-world insider, his brushes with celebrity, and his invaluable insight into the inner workings of the art market. Monaco is becoming a key destination for art lovers. This summer a big Giacometti retrospective will continue the strong exhibition program of the Forum Grimaldi. Under the patronage of Princess Caroline of Hanover, who is a formidable champion for culture in the principality, interesting exhibitions regularly take place at the Villa Sauber and ...
January 07, 2021 at 6:13pm Members of the Wildenstein family, possessors of one of the world’s largest collection of Old Masters, have been ordered by France’s highest court to face a retrial after being acquitted of tax fraud in 2018. The new trial will mark the third time the case against French American art dealer Guy Wildenstein; his nephew Alec Wildenstein, Jr.; and Liouba Soupakova, widow of Guy’s brother Alec Wildenstein—collectively referred to in the French press as “les W”—has come before the courts. Also being tried are a notary, a lawyer, and ...
Guy Wildenstein in 2017 Christophe Ena/AP/Rex In a new twist to a decade-long saga, France’s High Court has ordered the retrial of a fiscal fraud case against the heirs of the Wildenstein art-dealing dynasty. The family was accused of having “omitted substantial properties detained by trusts and other entities in tax havens in declarations of inheritance” after the deaths of Daniel Wildenstein (in 2001) and his son Alec (in 2008). But at the time judges ruled that “no fiscal fraud can be held against Guy and Alec Jr Wildenstein”, because there was “no legal p...
Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 06.51 EST France’s highest court has ordered a retrial of members of the art-dealing Wildenstein family who were acquitted of tax fraud in 2018. In what was described as the “trial of the missing millions”, Franco-American Guy, 74, appeared alongside his nephew Alec Jr, and his brother Alec’s widow Liouba Soupakova. A notary, two lawyers and two managers of trust funds held in Guernsey and the Bahamas were also in the dock. The accused, who denied the accusations, faced up to four years in jail. The public prosecutor asked for Guy Wildenstein to be fin...