Bored one night, James Leonard decided to put his brain and hands to work. Picking up a piece of clay that was at his Bloomington home, James created a miniature ceramic marble. That was only the ...

In 1989, an unpromising-sounding but alluring marble sculpture of a female nude came up for sale at a Christie’s auction held at an English country house in Hertfordshire. The catalogue claimed it was ...

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