A family is suing Sotheby's over an attribution of what some people have deemed a true Caravaggio. The auction house sold the piece in 2006 as a copy of a famous Caravaggio, only to see the buyer, an art scholar himself, go ahead and deem the piece an original Caravaggio, effectively increasing the worth from the 42,000 he paid to 10,000,000 pounds. The family is suing the auction house for the difference in estimated worth, but the auction house is standing by it's attribution, adding that leading Caravaggio scholars have signed off on the 'copy' designation...take a look...
http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sothebys-sued-over-Caravaggio-attribution/28616
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