Freshfields in the frame as court dismisses Caravaggio claim against Sotheby’s
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has successfully defended a negligence claim brought against Sotheby’s in which the auction house was accused of failing to notice that a work of art could have been painted by the Italian artist Caravaggio. The painting, depicting the same scene as Caravaggio’s ‘The Cardsharps’, was sold by claimant Lancelot Thwaytes through Sotheby’s […]