Picasso Work from Salerno to Dubai, Authenticity Checks Underway

The choose for the preliminary listening to of the Rome courtroom Francesco Patrone will at present assign the duty to the neutral marketing consultant who must set up the authenticity or in any other case of the 36 works by Picasso seized in January 2018 in Salerno from the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Safety Unit to the collector of Decrease Nocera Marcello Santelia77 years previous; for the general public prosecutor Santina Lionettiwho requested that Santelia be despatched to trial, contesting the crimes of possession of counterfeit works and receiving stolen items, the works can be false and this on the premise of an knowledgeable opinion.

The 77-year-old’s defenders have a unique opinion, Salvatore Nocera e Joseph Spagnola, who offered their recommendation on the final listening to which refutes that of the prosecution; the attorneys requested the preliminary listening to choose to not consider the prosecutor’s recommendation, contemplating it not based mostly on scientific certainties however on private opinions, and to nominate an neutral marketing consultant. The preliminary listening to choose accepted the defenders’ requests, suspending it to at present’s listening to, July 1st, for the appointment of the knowledgeable. The info got here to mild on the finish of 2017, as a result of the collector from Salerno he wished to promote a portray in Dubaiand to export it he requested for authorization from the Ministry of Tradition, which in flip requested the Picasso Basis for an opinion on the authenticity of the work, in line with which, nonetheless, the portray was a faux, with an aprocryphal signature of the nice painter.