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A court concluded Kapoor’s sculpture was mistakenly discarded
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AI-generated illustrative reconstruction of an abstract red sculpture beside a waste skip in an art warehouse.
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In 2004, Anish Kapoor’s 1984 sculpture Hole and Vessel II went missing while held by the London storage company Fine Art Logistic. Items were being moved during building work, and records were incomplete. In a 2007 ruling, the judge concluded it was more likely than not that the sculpture had mistakenly been put in a waste skip and destroyed. This was a conclusion drawn from the evidence, not an eyewitness account of the moment.