Bureaucrats will today decide whether to go ahead with the sale of a Henry Moore sculpture -- a decision which has put them at odds with London’s art world. Moore’s “Draped Seated Woman,” better known as “Old Flo,” belongs to the public and has an estimated market value of as much as 20 million pounds ($32 million). A sale would be idiotic and rob London of a bronze work that is part of its history. Last month, the Council of Tower Hamlets in East London decided to “explore the possibility” of the disposal of the 1.7- ton bronze. Even the best of public sculpture isn’t popular with everybody. While Michelangelo’s “David” was being installed in Florence in 1504, vandals threw stones at it. At...
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