Opinions on art are notoriously subjective — one person’s masterpiece is another’s childish mass of colourful squiggles — as demonstrated by a judge in a recent dispute over an abstract painting.
Sitting in the un-artistic surroundings of Central London county court, judge Alan Saggerson described a work by the Mexican contemporary painter, Bosco Sodi, as resembling a giant “burnt digestive biscuit”.
Whether that meant that Saggerson liked the painting was irrelevant to his ruling that a dealer must pay more than £110,000 after being on the losing end of a dispute over the missing work, Untitled in Red 2011.
The judge had heard that the painting had been loaned to Esperanza Koren, a London dealer, in 2012.
Sodi, 53, specialises in “impressive abstract painting”
