An Accident? Really?

One wonders what Lucian Freud's grandfather Sigmund would have said when a study by the British artist was accidentally destroyed in 2000. Porters at a Sotheby's auction house in London put the picture, estimated to be worth approximately $157,000, into a crushing machine because they thought the box it came in was empty.

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