A court in Madrid has ordered, for an alleged crime of seizure of assets, the seizure of four paintings by the Spanish painter Jose Maria Sicilia that were exhibited at the 42nd edition of the ARCO fair.
The information, advanced by El Confidencial, has been confirmed to Europa Press by sources from Ifema, which has complied with the order issued by the judge and keeps the works in its warehouses until it is decided who they should be delivered to.
The works in question are four paintings that were located in the gallery space Chantal Crousel from Paris and are part of an exhibition titled ‘Arabian Nights‘ that Sicily prepares for the Vatican Library.
The embargo has been carried out as a precautionary measure ordered by a Madrid court that is investigating a possible seizure of the artist’s assets for “alleged evasions to pay the divorce decree” of his second ex-wife, Elisabeth Mari de Bazelaire de Boucheporn, according to information from El Confidencial.
This judgment would have been handed down by the Provincial Court of Paris on June 4, 2019, ordering the payment of about 800,000 euroswhich “rise above a million due to legal interest”.
Source: Lasexta
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