An undercover detective posing as an art gallery business manager had invited Istavrioglou to New York, proposing to hire the defendant as an art gallery consultant, according to the district attorney's office.
Rather than compete with his peers for trendy new art, hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt and his wife, Judy, are building several collections around comparatively obscure niches like ancient Peruvian feather ponchos, Cycladic stone figures and 15th-century rugs.
Early reports disagree about which exact pieces were stolen, and when I talked with Alice Farren-Bradley, recoveries case manager at the Art Loss Registry, she told me that although the pieces had already been registered, she could only confirm that seven pieces were stolen: a Picasso, a Matisse, two Monets, a Gauguin, a Freud and a de Haan.
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An undercover officer, posing as the business manager of a New York art gallery, drew him from Milan to New York by offering to hire him as a gallery consultant.
"It's like my captain's chair, " says Ms. Friedland, a manager at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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In traditional Gundlach fashion, the manager spent most of his time referencing art and history in order to explain the current economic environment.
"It's science, and it's art, " said Wade Martindale, Farlow's production manager.
Now, is it a settled issue that emergency manager Kevyn Orr will, in fact, put this art up for sale, I mean, which has been considered, I think, priceless, really?
Rather than placing the calligraphy in the context of street art and design, "we are showing the works as art and sculpture pieces", said Natasha Whiffin, the gallery's manager.
Hedge fund manager Chaudhri thinks basic economics augur favorably: Compared with the amount of Western art sloshing around, India has a relatively small body of post-independence work.
It was a gamble, for although Irwin had worked in the antiques and interiors industry for years, first as an art handler at Christie's, then as a publicist within the business and a store manager, he had no actual design experience.
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