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Sculpture worth $350,000 arrives broken in Miami
A lifelike resin sculpture of a swimmer resting on an inner tube, valued at $350,000, which was to be the welcome piece at Art Miami this week, arrived in the city cracked in tiny pieces. The piece, by New York artist Carole Feuerman, had been shipped from Italy after showing at the National Museum of Beijing, during the Olympics. 'It feels like I was torn in half, too," Feuerman told the Palm Beach Post. 'So much of me is in this piece. It was so spectacular. It looked like a real girl, but you knew it wasn't.' Feuerman's work is in the collections of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Insurance will pay out $9,100 for the breakage, seemingly caused by the use of the wrong crate for the sculpture. Art Miami officials still want to display Feuerman's work – in its crate, with the cracked pieces left as they are.
Insurance will pay out $9,100 for the breakage, seemingly caused by the use of the wrong crate for the sculpture. Art Miami officials still want to display Feuerman's work – in its crate, with the cracked pieces left as they are.
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