Art court dispute

Two men jailed over the theft of Cattelan’s gold toilet

Oxford, United Kingdom · Source report date:

America by Maurizio Cattelan, pictured in the 2019 AP/ABC7 report.
America by Maurizio Cattelan, pictured in the 2019 AP/ABC7 report. Image source ↗
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Following the 2019 theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s America from Blenheim Palace, James Sheen received four years in prison and Michael Jones 27 months. The Crown Prosecution Service also recorded Fred Doe’s earlier suspended sentence. This report concerns sentencing, not recovery of the artwork.

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Art court dispute

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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