Jiménez Ifergán: "I have closed my museum in Malaga and sold the Ferrari"

Entrepreneur Vicente Jiménez Ifergán is giving up everything for literature, including his museum project that opened in 2018 on Sebastián Souvirón street. ... After trying to donate his unique collection of Phoenician terracottas to the Malaga Museum, he has put the pieces up for sale to the highest bidder, albeit with one condition.

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-Your collection of more than 200 Phoenician terracottas is for sale online, why?

–I offered it to the Andalusian Government, but the deal was not closed.

-What prevented it?

-I was giving it to the Malaga Museum for free for five years. But in the agreement, they did not want to state that it was a non-native collection since the pieces did not come from Andalusia, nor Spain. They also did not want to include an inventory with the value of each piece for insurance purposes, nor did they accept my condition that it be indivisible. I had several meetings with Patricia del Pozo - Minister of Culture - in Seville and, in the end, it did not materialize because they did not want to accept those conditions. Now I am negotiating its sale with different museums and collections. And it has been offered to the Andalusian Government for what it cost me, but they have not yet responded. It's a pity that this collection is leaving Malaga.

-But I saw the pieces for sale at an online auction.

-I put them in an auction in London, but with very high prices. But now I am negotiating so that a single person or a museum can keep it.

"The years I have left to live, I want to enjoy myself. I want to wake up in the morning and have no responsibilities, just write"

Vicente Jiménez Ifergán

Entrepreneur and writer

-Some appeared as sold.

-From the collection, four pieces have been sold to an American buyer who wanted specific pieces and I finally agreed. But aside from those four, the collection is intact. I have closed the museum and put it up for sale. Also the premises, the boat, the apartment I had in Kiev, the Ferrari, and everything I own. I was going to start a promotion of 21 homes and I have also given up. That's it, from now on I am going to dedicate myself to writing the next volume of 'The Secrets of Sofi', to write 'Ambition'. Also to see the world and to travel. The years I have left to live, I want to have a good time; I no longer want more business problems. I want to wake up in the morning and have no responsibilities, just write.