Collector appeals David Gefen to regain millions of valuable sculptures

Art Collector has been appealing to David Gefen for the resurrection of precious Gyacometti sculptures, which is said to have been sold without knowing the collector as part of a elaborate fraud.

A court document submitted to the Federal Court in Manhattan on Tuesday, a Hong Kong -based entrepreneur of Hong Kong, Justin San, who paid $ 78.4 million. The title Giacometti sculpture was stolen by him and stolen by him. Sold by a former advisor named in a court named Xiong Zihan Sydney.

Xiong has suggested that SUN supports the purchase of Giacometti at an auction in 2021 and interviews that SCULPTURE will be part of the APENFT FOUNDATION collection. The gap between the world of art and meta spring.

However, San's lawyer said in court documents that he continued to be the owner of the work, and that Xiong had forged his signature on a document related to transactions.

As part of the scheme, the court documents seemed to have created an email posing as a lawyer, creating a lawyer who was supervised by the transaction.

Xiong was not asked for comments.

Gefen's lawyer Tiger L. Naggie issued a statement that San's claims in the lawsuit featured San's claim as “strange and unfounded”, and San simply wants to return the transaction. I suggested that.

“We call the seller regret,” said a statement.

In a lawsuit, Mr. San's lawyer asks about the “obvious red flag” on the legitimacy of sales before proceeding ahead of the two art dealers and their lawyers in a major art collector. He said he should have been. They explained one of these “flags” as the fact that the assumed lawyer communicates through a personal Gmail account, not a more specialized address.

“The defendant must resurrect it or pay a great major damages to the plaintiff,” said San's lawyer.

San focused on a wide attention to $ 6.2 million when he paid a work consisting of fresh bananas stuck in walls in an art world last year. He later ate bananas. (Banana was the center of the 2019 concept artwork “Comedian” by the famous artist's mischief Maurizio Cutteran. Lot.)

SUN's lawyer said in 2023 that he had expressed his interest in finding a buyer who paid more than $ 80 million to bronze, iron and iron sculptures. Elegant nose. However, the court documents have said that he has never given his advisor to negotiate a contract.

The lawsuit, nevertheless, has negotiated a contract with Gefen's representative because he is less than what San had sought. Under the contract, according to the court documents, Gefen handed over two artwork. According to the court's documents, in addition to $ 55 million, there was another $ 10.5 million cash in exchange for Gaacometti.

“If he was told about it, he would have never agreed to such a transaction. The plaintiff is Renesz for the benefits of what he paid or the full -speed (or equivalent) transaction. He just expressed his interest in selling, “said the court documents that his lawyer said.

But in his statement, Gefen's lawyer, Nagagie, suggested that San had recognized this transaction. “Mr. SUN has received two paintings and $ 10.5 million for the sculpture he sold,” said a statement. “After trying to sell paintings, he wants to take up the transaction again.”

In San's lawsuit, his lawyer said he had not realized that the sculpture had been sold over months since Gefen bought it. According to the lawsuit, the art advisor has suggested that Gefen has used cash and found a collector who was interested in sculptures with a $ 10 million deposit. They submit them, saying they transferred them to San and retained the remaining $ 500,000 for themselves.

San's lawsuit says he only found a scheme when he returned to his adviser last December and asked her about the lack of progress in the transaction. A lawyer later contacted Gefen's representative, but said he had not returned his job.

Contribution report of Zachary Small.