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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who has been convicted in. Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities[1]
Becchina is known to have sold object the Ashmolean,[2] the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum,[3][4] [5] the Princeton University Art Museum,[6] the Toledo Museum of Art[7] and the J. Paul Getty Museum (Isman 2011b: 50), the collect George Ortiz, Leon Levy and Shelby White, the Merrin Gallery in New York, Japanese antiquities dealer Noriyoshi Horiuchi,Dietrich von Bothmer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Isman 2011b: 50).[8] He had links with the art dealers Mario Bruno and Elie Borowsky (Isman 2011b: 52; Watson and Todeschini 2007: 294), and sold material through Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses in London. Sometimes he used pseudonymes such as Anna Spinello (the married name of his sister) (Watson and Todeschini 2007: 293-4).[1]
Looted objects
In December 2019 the United States has filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of an Attic Etruscan votive statuette that was recovered by the FBI and HSI years after it was illegally excavated and smuggled out of Italy. [9]
Court cases
United States v. ONE ATTIC ETRUSCAN VOTIVE STATUETTE OF A FEMALE FIGURE
- ^ a b "Gianfranco Becchina" (PDF). https://sherloc.unodc.org.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ^ "British museums linked to Sicilian 'loot dealer'". thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "A New York, la justice rend à l'Italie des œuvres de l'Antiquité volées". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Une mafia très antique - Le Temps" (in French). 2006-05-06. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ Baldacchino, Julien (2022-09-07). "Près d'une soixantaine d'œuvres d'art volées rendues par les États-Unis à l'Italie". France Inter (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "New Wave of Returns: Hundreds of Looted Antiquities Recovered from the Met, Princeton and Others". CHASING APHRODITE. 2012-01-24. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Affaire Kalpis à figures noires étrusque – Italie et Toledo Museum of Art".
- ^ Neuendorf, Henri (2015-01-22). "Millions of Looted Antiquities Uncovered in Raid". Artnet News. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "District of Columbia | United States Files Complaint Seeking Forfeiture of Ancient Sculpture Stolen from Italy and Smuggled into the United States | United States Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2023-11-08.