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France’s highest court upholds convictions in Zadkine bronze fraud case

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France’s highest court upholds convictions in Zadkine bronze fraud case
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France’s Cour de cassation upheld convictions over a bronze presented as Ossip Zadkine’s The Return of the Prodigal Son. It overturned only one intermediary’s fine and remanded that issue. The image shows a related version in the Musée Zadkine collection, Paris Musées.

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