Posted on August 31, 2011 by Daniel Schnapp

Art Collector as the Next President of Egypt?

Naguib Sawiris, billionaire and founder of the Free Egyptian party, hopes to become the newly liberated country's president and build a public museum to display his personal art collection. According to this article, Sawiris offered a $175,000 reward for the return of Van Gogh’s Poppies, which was stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August 2010.

 

(This entry was drafted with the assistance of Nicole Dornbusch.)

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