Art dealer ordered to pay £111,000 over missing painting by Mexican artist

Esperanza Koren told London court she didn't know whereabouts of Bosco Sodi's painting

An art dealer has been ordered to pay 111,000 over a missing abstract painting compared to a giant burnt digestive biscuit" by a judge in a London court

The court heard that the piece by the Mexican artist Bosco Sodi - a round painting with a cracked surface built up using natural pigment, sawdust, wood pulp, natural fibres, water and glue - went missing after being loaned to the London art dealer Esperanza Koren in 2012.