Jerome M. Eisenberg (July 6, 1930 – July 6, 2022)
was an American dealer in illegally looted
antiquities
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.
He had a son.
Eisenberg died in July 2022 of
pneumonia
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in a
hospital
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in
Manhattan, New York
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, at the age of 92.
Antiquities handled by Eisenberg ended up in major museum collections like the Getty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
He also published scholarship in art history such as "Indian and South-East Asian art from the Alsdorf collection" (''
Minerva
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'', 8, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1997: 15–18), and also provided appraisals.
He was also a key person in illegally marketing and selling of looted valuable historical artifacts through his gallery in Manhattan, exported from Turkey, including the
Bubon
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bronzes, which were eventually returned to Turkey in 2025.
Books
*''A Collector's Guide to Seashells of the World'' (McGraw-Hill, 1981)
*''Art of the Ancient World: A Guide for the Collector and Investor'' (1985)
See also
*
Oscar White Muscarella
Oscar White Muscarella (March 26, 1931 – November 27, 2022) was an American archaeologist and former Senior Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he worked for over 40 years before retiring in 2009. He specialized in the art an ...
, another expert in fraudulent antiquities
References
External links
Jerome M. Eisenberg (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
American art dealers
20th-century American Jews
1930 births
2022 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state)
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