Europe is rethinking its privacy structures thanks to Russian art collector Dmitry Rybolovlev, even though Yves Bouvier has been internationally cleared for months.
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The world s most expensive painting is stirring up a scandal
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31st May, 2021 06:17:38
It is the biggest legal fight the art world has ever witnessed: a Russian oligarch, who claims he was ripped off buying multi-million-dollar masterpieces, versus a Swiss art dealer who says it was just business.
Now, after six years of lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions, the tables appear to be turning once more in a saga so dramatic it s been given a name worthy of a movie script: The Bouvier Affair.
Russian fertilizer tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev has pursued Swiss art dealer and freeport storage magnate Yves Bouvier around the world for years in various courts, claiming to have been swindled out of $1 billion on 38 exorbitantly priced artworks sold to him by Bouvier over the course of a decade.