The house of subastas Drouot consumes the sale of six prehistoric pieces originals of the actual territory of Veracruz, Jalisco and Nayarit, and for their collection more than 7 million euros, which agree with the type of current exchange, equivalent to a little more than 185 miles.
Drouot lifted to the head of the sale of pre-Columbian and African art of different civilizations, during a subast conformed by 177 lots, of the six seasons corresponding to pieces that are made by cultures that inhabit the actual Mexican territory.
The pieces are sold in lots 40, 41, 42, 43, 46 and 47. If you want to make a sale between 300 and 2 mil 500 euros, maximum that was sold at the sale of lot 43, which increased by 2 mil 800 euro (67 million 900 pesos), without taxes.
Lot 43 was a hacha representing the rostrum of a diocese of the veracruzan region, described by Drouot as a piece of 24 centimeters high and 21 centimeters long, dating to the Mesoamerican Classical period.
The restaurant is located in the Sala 15 of the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, France. The second Mesoamerican piece by the mayor is an estimate from lot 47: a woman’s wife sitting in a bank that has been worked out by a Nayarit culture.
The 54-centimeter-high and 25-inch school, which can be described as “small accidents” and a “good general condition” was sold for 2 mil 500 euros (60 mil 625 pesos) without taxes included.
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In general, the six pieces are sculptures of small size, like the lot 42: a cabbage with a token in the shape of a grid, which measures 13.5 centimeters in height and 14 centimeters in height. Fue sold for 350 euros, only 8 million pesos, without taxes included.
Drouot’s three days after the subasta “Quetzalcoatl: slang à pluime” organized by Christie’s, which sells 32 Mesoamerican pieces, including three that the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) catalogs as “false”.
El INAH informs about the subasta of Christie’s presentó denuncias an la la Fiscalía General de la República (FGR); without embarrassment, THE UNIVERSAL solicited repeated information about the actions taken by Drouot’s submitter, although no response was received.
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