Greek Painting Fetches €1.25 Million at Bonhams — a Record for 20th-Century Greek Art and a Forgery Scandal Reversal

A large-scale 1950s oil painting by Greek modernist Konstantinos Parthenis has sold for €1.25 million at a Bonhams auction in Paris, setting the record for the most expensive 20th-century Greek artwork ever sold at auction. This sale marks a striking reversal for a painter whose market collapsed after a 2012 forgery lawsuit against Sotheby's. The work, Poesie (Annunciation), measuring 318 by 158 centimeters, was estimated at €300,000 before competitive international bidding drove the final p...

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