Recently David Gill of Looting Matters published a polaroid from the Giacomo Medici Archive. Just hours after the article was published, Archaology Matters struck a blow with a one line comment: "...and is now in the Bonham's sale (lot 137)".
By April 27 the lot was withdrawn from the Bonham's sale and David Gill was writing on the subject again, as were others. It even left the blogosphere in an article published by the Guardian, 27.10.2010.
It is a pity no one thought to mention our contribution, which may have been quantitatively small, but was certainly the key to the affair....
This is not to take any of the credit from David Gill and the excellent work he does with Looting Matters (and not only..!).
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Please see the comments. All credit is rightly attributed to David Gill of Looting Matters. For all his work I can but once again congratulate him!
On the 31 March 2010 I pointed out the significance of the December 1986 sale at Sotheby's: here. I drew attention to lot 137's appearance in that sale on 1 April 2010: here. Archaeology Matters observed the link with the Polaroid in the Medici Dossier on 21 April 2010: here.
ReplyDeleteDavid Gill,
ReplyDeleteYou are quite right. I missed your April 1st post, and seeing the April 21st post (with no obvious link to the Bonham's auction) I thought I was being original in identifying the object.
I apologise and again congratulate you for your great work!