Rumors Abound That French Super-Retailer Carrefour May Be In Bidding
Will the Rabbit and the Rat finally return to Beijing? Image © Artworld Salon
The Financial Times reports that the recent controversy about the sale of two bronze zodiac heads looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace by Anglo-French troops in the 19th century and put on the auction block by the estate of Yves St. Laurent may be close to an end. As you may remember, the auction, held in Feburary, were sold for £14m each, but the anonymous buyer soon revealed his true identity — as the New York Review of Books writes,
