He didn’t do it!
A photographer who was snapping pictures at a Manhattan art collector’s home says he’s not the one who broke her 2,630-year-old terra cotta figure.
Corice Arman filed suit against the publishers of Art+Auction Magazine earlier this week, charging that its “photographers” dropped the Nigerian “Nok” figure while moving it during a shoot at her TriBeCa home last May.
But the photographer on the shoot, Eric Guillemain, said yesterday that he never touched the piece — only two people from Art+Auction did.
“They had a person on set handling the statue with an assistant,” Guillemain told The Post.
“I was preparing my cameras at the opposite side of the room waiting for them to take care of that” when “I heard the crash,” he said.
“I didn’t see what happened [but] I am not the one responsible here.”
Guillemain said he received a call from the magazine person who had been on the shoot about two weeks after the incident, and the individual had just been fired.
Arman is suing Art+Auction publisher Louise Blouin Media for $300,000 in damages. The suit does not name Guillemain.
Louise Blouin’s president, Ben Hartley, maintains the company is not liable for the destruction, and said that Guillemain told them “no one was near it” when it fell.