Alejandra Frausto fails auction of archaeological pieces in New York

The Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, rejected the sale of archaeological pieces what did you do Sotheby’s this Tuesday in the New York, United States.

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“We strongly oppose the sale of archaeological pieces that Sotheby’s intends to carry out in New York. We say it loud and clear: #MiPatrimonioNoSeVende”, she wrote through social networks.

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the auction house put up for sale this May 24 a lot belonging to Amy and Elliot Lawrencewhich included four pieces of art from Central Africa, ancient sculptures from the island of San Lorenzo and other antiquities.

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Between the catalog of the auction entitled The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collectionthere was a figure that Sotheby’s assured was Olmec, belonging to the early preclassic and dating from entre 1200 a900 a.C. It was sold for 2 thousand 520 dollars (about 50 thousand pesos).

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Also, it included a Mayan figure of Jaina dignitarybelonging to late classic, around 550 to 950 AD This was auctioned for 11 thousand 970 dollars (about 237 thousand 711 pesos).

Starting in the 1950s, Amy and Elliot Lawrence built a collection of classic African, Oceanic and American Indian art, as well as pre-Columbian, Asian and classical antiquities, the auction house said.

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Amy Lawrence was an academic, teacher, and therapist, while Elliot Lawrence was in a famous music band in the late 1940s and 1950s, and later became a musical director in television and film.

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