Painting probe leads to two-month sale ban for Aguttes

Parisian auctioneer Claude Aguttes has been banned from holding sales for two months following an investigation into the sale of a Russian painting at the Hôtel Drouot in October 2007.

His suspension is seen as a major embarrassment to the Paris auction venue. 

Aguttes was appointed p…

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