Ownership dispute settled over stolen Madonna withdrawn by Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s withdrew a late thirteenth-century Madonna and Child from auction after it was identified as stolen from a Geneva vault in 1986. A settlement resolved the ownership dispute in 2015. The possible attribution to Duccio remained open.
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