France blocks export of €19.5m Cimabue panel following sale to overseas buyer
The French government has blocked the export of ‘The mocking of Christ’, a medieval panel by Cenni di Pepo (known as Cimabue) that sold in October for €19.5m plus premium at auction house Actéon.
Now classified as a ‘national treasure’, the state has 30 months to make an offer to acquire the wor…