Obituaries: Jiri Frel, 82; Colourful Curator Who Left Getty Under a Cloud

Frammolino, R. (2006) ‘Obituaries: Jiri Frel, 82; Colourful Curator Who Left Getty Under a Cloud’, Los Angeles Times, 13 May.

Jiri Frel, a Czechoslovakian refugee whose eccentricities and professional controversies marked his tenure as the J. Paul Getty Museum’s first antiquities curator, has died. He was 82.