The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World (31 page)

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2.
“Fake Picasso Anyone? Austrian Police Search for Fraud Victims,” Reuters, September 16, 2014, retrieved October 14, 2014,
http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFKBN0HB1K220140916
.

3.
Pia Akerman, “Legal Groups Urged to Join Seizure Challenge in ‘Art Fraud’ Case,”
The Australian,
September 29, 2014, retrieved October 14, 2014,
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/legal-groups-urged-to-join-seizure-challenge-in-art-fraud-case/story-e6frg97x-1227073249704?nk=c89ef30e01c4075216d01ed476c3a6ae
.

4.
Amanda Williams, “Secret Work of a Master Forger: Sketches of Artist Who Duped Dealers and Galleries for Decades to Be Auctioned,”
Daily Mail Online,
October 14, 2014, retrieved October 14, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2792288/secret-work-master-forger-sketches-artist-duped-dealers-galleries-decades-auctioned.html
.

5.
Kurt Bayer, “Art Forger’s Masterpiece in City Sale,”
New Zealand Herald,
October 4, 2014, retrieved October 14, 2014,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11336716
.

6.
Hendrik Hansson, “International Art Forgery Ringleaders Charged,”
Artnet News,
September 16, 2014, retrieved October 14, 2014,
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/international-art-forgery-ringleaders-charged-103625
.

Selected Bibliography

Catterall, Lee.
The Great Dali Fraud and Other Deceptions.
New Jersey: Barricade Books, 1992.

Charney, Noah, ed.
Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World.
New York: Praeger, 2009.

Gassner, John and Sidney Thomas, eds.
The Nature of Art.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.

Gregori, Mina.
The Age of Caravaggio.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.

Irving, Clifford.
Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Khandekar, Narayan, Gianfranco Pocobene and Kate Smith.
John Singer Sargent’s
Triumph of Religion
at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration.
Cambridge: Harvard Art Museum, 2009.

Knelman, Joshua.
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art.
Canada: Douglas &McIntyre, 2011.

Lopez, Jonathan.
The Man Who Made Vermeers.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2009.

Tomkins, Calvin.
Lives of the Artists.
New York: Henry Holt, 2008.

Index

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60 Minutes,
7

Abbey, Edwin Austin,
98

Abstract Expressionism,
9
,
38
,
41
–43,
45
–46,
50
,
57
,
74
,
105
,
150
,
152
,
212
,
217
–18,
222

Adelson Galleries,
103
,
108

Amiel, Leon,
176
–92

Andrade, Jaime,
39
,
42

Apollo the Luteplayer,
64
,
66
,
76

Apostle James, The
(Rembrandt),
149
–50,
152
–55

Arabesque (Pollock),
38

Art Dealers Association of America,
54
,
85

Art Loss Register (ALR),
122
–30,
141
,
166

Art Students League,
39
,
195

Artvera Gallery,
23

Astor family,
37

Athenaeum portrait,
1

Austin, Donald,
186
–88

authentication

Beltracchis and,
32
,
35
–36

Campendonk’s work and,
21
,
23
, 28

Christie’s and,
21
,
23

Coombes and,
215

family members and,
28
,
46
,
108

Fine Art Treasures and,
204

Gauguin’s work and,
156

ICE and,
142

IFAR and,
9
–10,
44

Jägers collection and,
35
–36

Johns’ work and,
84
,
95

Khan and,
163
,
172

Knoedler & Company and,
37
–38,
43
–44

Matter paintings and,
152

Motherwell and,
47
–48

older artwork and,
101
,
106

Orion Analytical and,
55

Picasso’s work and,
166
,
200
–1

Pollock-Krasner Foundation and,
50

Sakhai and,
146
–48,
151
,
155

scientific advances in,
10
,
12
,
55

Temchins and,
200

Tiffany lamps and,
145

Trasteco and,
23

backscattered electron imaging,
55

Baker, Richard Brown,
38

Bakwin family,
113
–14,
116
–23,
125
–31,
134
–36

Barclay, James,
2

Basquiat, Jean-Michel,
85

Beltracchi, Wolfgang,
15
–16,
18
–20,
25
,
29
–36,
37
–39

Bergantiños, Carlos,
39
–42,
56
–59

Blank, Martin,
216

Bloedel, Prentice and Virginia,
54

Blondeau, Marc,
47
–48

Blum, Irving,
38

Buffett, Warren,
79

Bush, George H. W.,
79

Campendonk, Heinrich,
21
–25,
28
–30,
35

Cardinal Riario of San Giorgio,
3
–4

Caravaggio
show,
64
–66,
76

Carte, Anto,
140
–41,
143
–44,
146

Castelli, Leo,
81
–82

Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings and Collages,
51
,
108

Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
(Perenyi),
8

Cazeau-Beraudiere gallery (Paris),
22

Cemin, Saint Clair,
86
–89,
91
–92

Cezanne,
18
,
73
,
114
–22,
127
–30,
134
,
136
–37

Chagall, Marc,
18
,
146
,
149
–50,
157
,
162
–63,
175
–77,
179
,
183
–84,
186
–88,
190
–91,
198

La Nappe Mauve,
149
,
157

Le Bouquet Sur le Toit,
162

Story of Exodus, The,
176

Chappell, Duncan,
12

Chihuly, Dale,
214
–17

Christ and the Adulteress
(Vermeer),
4

Christie’s

Bakwin and,
114

Chagall’s works and,
157
,
176

Flag
and,
81

Gauguin’s works and,
155
–56

Juene Fille
and,
141

Khan and,
170

Mädchen mit Schwan (Girl with Swan)
and,
20
–21,
23

Pollock’s work and,
52

Sakhai and,
145
,
147

Salander and,
70

Scharf’s works and,
85

Coffaro, Philip,
181
–83,
185
,
187
–88

Cohen, L. D.,
7

Cold War,
80

Coletti, Joseph,
99
–102,
108
–10

Convertine, Carol,
178
–80,
184

Coombes, James,
214
–16

Courtauld Institute of Art (London),
24
,
64

craquelure,
151
,
211

Crussard, Sylvie,
156

Cruz, Maria Apelo,
160
–61,
163
,
171
–73

Cugini, Luigi,
100
–12

Cultural Revolution,
40

Da Vinci, Leonardo,
36
,
150
,
167

Dalí, Salvador,
150
,
177
,
179
–80,
183
–84,
186
,
188
,
197
,
204

David Herbert Collection,
38
,
42
,
46
,
48
–53,
55
,
59

Davis, Earl,
71
–72

Davis, Stuart,
70
–71,
77
,
242
n24

de Guebriant, Wanda,
107
–8

de Hory, Elmyr,
8
,
146
,
230

de Kooning, Willem,
41
,
82
–83,
104
,
162
–64,
173
–74

de Ponte, Jacopo,
54
–55

De Sole, Domenico and Eleanore,
45
–46,
49
,
55
,
59

Dedalus Foundation,
47
–48,
50
–53

Degas, Edgar,
81
,
222

DeMuro, Robert,
188

DeNiro, Robert,
68
–69,
73
–74

Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
141
–42,
216

Derain, Andre,
29

Diebenkorn, Richard,
43
,
222
–24

Doerner, Max,
27

Dorfman, Fred,
95

Dragon, Ted,
42

Drewe, John,
5

Eastaugh, Nicholas,
10
–11,
24
,
29
–32,
34
,
36

eBay,
189
–90,
197
,
199
,
210
–14,
217
,
219
,
221
–27

Egg Beater
series (Davis),
70

El Greco,
63
,
66
,
141

Elderfield, John,
43

Elegies to the Spanish Republic
(Motherwell),
47

Elliott, Katherine,
215
–17

English, Linda,
168
–73

Entartete Kunst
(degenerate art),
17

Ernst, Max,
28
,
32
,
35
–36,
61

Erté,
188
,
198

Esser, Manfred,
35

Eubanks, Kristine,
193
–207

Fake!
(Irving),
8

Fakes and Deception: Examining Fraud in the Art Market
(Polk and Chappell),
224

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

ALR and,
123

Cugini and,
104
,
107
–12

David Herbert Collection and,
51
,
56
–59,
61

Eubanks and,
202

Khan and,
168
–70,
172
–73

Mardirosian and,
131
–34,
136

Meyers and,
94

Qian and,
56
–58

Ramnarine and,
91

Re and,
217
–18,
220
–21

Sakhai and,
147
,
156
–57

Walton and,
224
–25

Zabrin and,
190

Ferus Gallery (Los Angeles),
38

Fine Art Expert Institute (Switzerland),
9

Firmenich, Andrea,
21
,
23
–25,
30

Fishstein, Mark,
72
,
232

Flam, Jack,
48
,
50
–51

Flechtheim, Alfred,
18
–19,
21
–25,
31

Fleischman, Martin,
178
–79

Fontella, Megan M.,
6

Forgy, Mark,
8

Freedman, Ann,
39
,
43
,
45
–46,
48
–52,
57
,
59
–61,
63
,
74

Frick Collection museum,
37
,
69

Führermuseum,
4
,
17

see also
Hitler, Adolf; Nazis

Galerie Flechtheim (Düsseldorf),
21

Galerie Thannhauser (Lucerne),
113

Gardner, James,
18

Gauguin, Paul,
149
,
155
–56

Gauguin: A Savage in the Making
(Crussard),
156

German Expressionism,
21
–22

Gerston, Ron,
67

Goebbels, Joseph,
18

Goering, Hermann,
4
–5

Goldblatt, Bonnie,
142
–44

Goldman Sachs,
44

Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum,
214
–15

Grant, Peter,
229
–30

Grant, Richard,
43

Grassi, Marco,
60

Grigoryev, Boris,
229

Groeger, Lawrence,
185
–86,
188

Grosz, George,
18
,
24

Hadley, Nicole,
218

Hammarskjöld, Dag,
176

Haring, Keith,
85

Hart, Frederick,
82

Hebborn, Eric,
8
,
230

Henty, David,
212
–14,
218
–19

Herbert, David,
38
–39,
42
,
46
,
48
–53,
55
,
59
,
79

Herbert Smith law firm,
128
,
130

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.),
82

Hitler, Adolf,
4
,
17
,
19
,
140

see also
Nazis

Hockney, David,
65
,
195

Hoheb, Vanessa,
82

Hongtu, Zhang,
40

Hopps, Walter,
38

Hoving, Thomas,
9

Hrycyk, Don,
104
,
167
–68,
201
,
203
–4,
232

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
142

see also
Department of Homeland Security

Impressionism,
9
,
16
,
18
,
20
,
114
–15,
120
,
128
,
141
,
145
,
149
–51,
156
,
162
,
195

International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR),
9
,
44
,
122
,
219
–20

Irving, Clifford,
8
,
38

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA),
22
,
131
,
231
–32

Jackson, Ashley,
213
–14

Jackson, Sarah,
123
–24

Jägers, Werner,
15
–16,
18
–23,
25
,
31
,
33
,
36
–38

Janis, Sidney,
38

Jentsch, Ralph,
24
–25,
31

Jewish Museum of Belgium,
143

Johns, Jasper,
79
–85,
90
–96

Jones, Justin,
8

Kandinsksy, Wassily,
18
,
21
,
176

Kelly, Ellsworth,
38

Kelly, Geoff,
131
–34,
136
,
232

Kelly, Jim,
45

Kennedy, James,
189
–90

Kennedy, John F.,
81
–82

Khan, Tatiana,
160
–65,
167
–74

Kifer, Terrie,
198

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