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Tristan Kirk

Art dealer told to pay £111,000 for missing ‘burnt digestive’ canvas

A Kensington art dealer has been ordered to pay £111,000 over the mysterious disappearance of a work of art likened by a judge to a giant “burnt digestive biscuit”.

Esperanza Koren was licensed in 2012 to exhibit and sell artworks for the Barcelona-based gallery Principal Art, including Bosco Sodi’s two-and-a-half-metre wide mixed media abstract painting Untitled in red, 2011.

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