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[Source: Reuters]
The heirs of former Italian chief Silvio Berlusconi will hold among the hundreds of artworks he amassed largely from TV buying channels.
A household spokesperson mentioned on Friday, after media experiences that the gathering confronted destruction.
Italian media say the billionaire, who died in June aged 86, had rented an enormous warehouse close to his villa within the city of Arcore to accommodate some 25,000 primarily low-value objects, together with work and statues, purchased from late-night TV public sale exhibits.
The warehouse has upkeep prices round 800,000 euros ($846,000) a yr, in accordance with La Repubblica newspaper.
Vittorio Sgarbi, an artwork critic and former lawmaker with Berlusconi’s Forza Italia social gathering, advised state TV RAI this week that the previous prime minister spent round 20 million euros to create the gathering.
In line with photos in La Repubblica, it contains work of nudes, and portraits and statues of Berlusconi.
Sgarbi advised the paper the gathering was “monstrously entertaining”, however of little worth, with solely “six of seven” deemed attention-grabbing.
“There was no analysis, he labored with the concept of shopping for a bunch of artworks detached to what they have been,” Sgarbi advised RAI’s Report programme, including that TV auctioneers couldn’t consider the previous prime minister needed to purchase from them.
“He would begin saying ‘I’m Berlusconi’ and they might hold up the telephone considering it was a joke.”
The household spokesperson mentioned the gathering had sentimental worth and denied experiences it was being dismantled.
Every of Berlusconi’s 5 youngsters will hold some for themselves, with “essentially the most acceptable vacation spot” for the remainder to be determined later, the spokesperson mentioned.
Forbes estimated that Berlusconi and his household had belongings value round $6.8 billion, of which round two thirds have been held by holding firm Fininvest.