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Among the projects are a series of student paintings in the Science Center, an exhibition and auction in Adams House of work by Boston area artists, and an environmental painting using muslin and the trees in Harvard Yard...
...Faberge's rare masterpieces, or rather what looks like one, is now the subject of a bitter legal battle that has scandalized the art-sales world. The combatants are Eskandar Aryeh, an Iranian-born millionaire who has filed a $37 million suit, and Christie's, the renowned London-based auction house...
...refused to pay, fearing that it was a fake. Says Aryeh: "Faberge made very few Imperial eggs, and they are all masterpieces. The one I opened in Switzerland was junk." Christie's officials insisted the egg was genuine. After months of haggling, Christie's sued Aryeh. Finally, the auction house produced a letter from British Art Expert A. Kenneth Snowman, the world's leading authority on Faberge, who declared the egg "undoubtedly" an Imperial Faberge. Aryeh paid the $250,000, plus $200,000 in lawyer's fees, and took...
...weeks before the auction, Christie's New York president, Christopher Burge, told Aryeh that the house would not sell his egg. The reason was that Snowman now said it was not an Imperial egg but rather one of Faberge's pretty but less valuable baubles. Other experts noted that several awkward features, including a protruding hinge, indicated that the egg had been embellished by some jeweler other than Faberge. Aryeh then demanded the return of his original $250,000. Christie's refused, and two weeks ago he sued...
...Monday--At a private auction in Washington, the Administration sells the National Park system to General Dynamics Corp. and the Supreme Court--along with a 25-year supply of black robes--to Carl Icahn, and sells a 99-year lease on the Department of Health and Human Services to a pan-Arab investment consortium. The total proceeds...