Leon Levy obit

Although the obituaries in the NY Times, Newsday, and Forbes are chiefly devoted to Levy's brilliant career as an investor, it is as a collector and patron that he was best known to art historians and archeologists. The obituaries do not mention, however, that Levy's collecting was not free from controversy: many felt he was not sufficiently scrupulous about avoiding ancient artworks likely to have been illegally excavated or exported.

Posted by David on April 8, 2003 8:39 PM