Urbano Quinto Heritage
The Papers
Urbano Quinto was an international art dealer, writer and author of art books, private collector of Medieval and Renaissance art and American Pop Art works on paper of the '70s and '80s.
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The Urbano Quinto Collection is famous throughout the world for the quality and extreme rarity of its compendium of art masterpieces.
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The UQ Heritage Collection and the individual collections of the heirs include famous masterpieces such as the iron flask damascening in gold and silver and the Chimeras key from the coffer secrets, works of the Renaissance by the extraordinary hand of Benvenuto Cellini. Significant masterpieces are also the Renaissance bronze plaque in dark patina, cast with lost wax and cold retouched with chisel, depicting The Last Supper from Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, the monumental pair of bronze fireplace andirons by the Alessandro Vittoria's workshop, the embossed and chiselled copper parade shield wheel, preserved in a leather patina, work of a craftsman near Michelangelo's workshop and the Donatellian boxwood Christ, extraordinarily executed without a loincloth in Florence, in the second half of the 15th century.
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Andy Warhol portrayed and photographed Urbano Quinto and his family several times with his famous Polaroids and Jean-Michel Basquiat portrayed him, together with his wife Anita and is son Mauro, in the series of works, initially created to be pasted onto canvas, "Swiss Lady, Swiss Boy and Urb". Keith Haring between 1982 and 1984 has several times amicably paid homage to Quinto, Anita and Mauro by depicting them during his impromptu performances in some of his famous drawings in the empty paper advertising spaces in the New York Subway.
Mauro Urbano, Anita Bischoff Urbano and the other heirs founded Urbano Quinto Heritage in Dover, DE, USA to safeguard the eternal memory of the life, the works and the collections of a man with an iron heart.
For over nine years we have been fighting in the Courts against unknown persons, who have placed on the market hundreds of fake letters of provenance, certificates of authenticity and origin, with false signatures of dr Mauro Urbano and Urbano Quinto, in order to fraudulently accompany the works to be placed in sale on the international market.
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The Urbano Quinto Heritage does not deal with commercial transactions of any kind and is therefore not affiliated with any art gallery or merchant, shopkeeper, auction house or online sales site.
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This site was created for:
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Verify the truthfulness of the documents of the Urbano Quinto Heritage by checking the code of the Private Archive of the U.Q. Heirs and checking the authenticity of the signature of dr Mauro Urbano or prof. Darius Wexlar.
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Provide assistance if the documents of the works has not issued by Urbano Quinto Heritage.
The Heritage takes care of the inheritance of Urbano Quinto who passed away in 1997. All documents prior to his death must be studied to be authorized by Urbano Quinto Heritage.
We have to analyze the works, to understand if they were actually part of the private collection or the selection of the Urbano Quinto Gallery, and the signature of Urbano Quinto through a international calligraphy expert. If everything, after the verifications, will correspond, Urbano Quinto Heritage will be able to issue a new letter of provenance including the code of the Private Archive of the U.Q. Heirs.
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January, 2025
Lately we have been receiving more requests for checking drawings already known because they have been published and which have badly reproduced Letters of Provenance from Urbano Quinto Heritage. Please pay great attention and remember that we are available free of charge, within the timeframe agreed with the UQH committee, for checking the documentation and the right combination between the work and the papers. We plan to soon publish a tutorial with photographic examples of falsified or incorrectly matched Letters of Provenance.
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FAKE LETTER OF PROVENANCE
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April, 2025
We have been notified on the site eBay Italy of the sale of this drawing by Salvador Dalì declared as coming from the collection of the art dealer Urbano Quinto who purchased the drawing directly from Dalì in 1974:
We will not go into the merits of the authenticity of the work, which is not our concern, but the Letter of Provenance was found to be FAKE because the signature of Dr. Mauro Urbano is FAKE.
In the announcement of sale, among other things, it is stated that the son Mauro Urbano sold the entire collection which was purchased separately by various gallery owners and this is not only ridiculous but also false and easily verifiable.
We are surprised, that what appears to be a professional seller puts a work up for sale publicly without verifying its provenance and documentation.
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Urbano Quinto Heritage and Dr. Mauro Urbano will take action immediately in the relevant venues and in the ways permitted by international laws.
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Update May, 2025: eBay after analyzing our requests has informed us that in the proposed listing with a counterfeit document with the false signature of Dr. Mauro Urbano they do not find any violation of their policy...
Now we will begin the legal process in international criminal and civil courts.
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Darius Wexlar
Coordinator Urbano Quinto Heritage
For more informations and to submit the documents you can contact prof. Darius Wexlar, coordinator of the Urbano Quinto Heritage, Dover, DE, USA by filling out the following form.
