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Feb 5, 2016 · Nor is the recent case their first brush with forgery. In the 1958 edition of Art News Annual, the gallery took out a full-page ad with a 1948 Matisse that turned out to be a fake by the notorious ...
Apr 23, 2012 · On a mid-February day, she approached the mansion at 19 East 70th Street, where New York’s most venerable art gallery used to be, before its sudden, shocking closing last fall amid forgery ...
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Jun 17, 2019 · In the 1958 edition of Art News Annual, the gallery took out a full-page ad with a 1948 Matisse that turned out to be a fake by the notorious forger Elmyr de Hory. When Elmyr’s forgeries were ...
Knoedler. Stereoscopic photograph of the Knoedler gallery interior, c.1860–1880. M. Knoedler & Co. (/ ˈnoʊdlər /) [ 1 ] was an art dealership in New York City founded in 1846. When it closed in 2011, amid lawsuits for fraud, [ 2 ] it was one of the oldest commercial art galleries in the US, having been in operation for 165 years. [ 3 ]
- The Alleged Masterminds. Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz, his then girlfriend Glafira Rosales, and his brother Jesus Angel Bergantiños Diaz allegedly ordered up the fake paintings and fabricated the backstories, which often involved the paintings going straight from the artists’ studios to the collectors.
- Central Defendant—and Victim? Knoedler director Ann Freedman is at the center of the case. She had left the gallery in 2009 after decades in the business.
- The Plaintiffs. Bringing the case are collectors John Howard, who reportedly purchased a fake de Kooning, and Domenico de Sole, the former chairman of Gucci, who now serves on the board of Sotheby’s.
- The Settlements. Howard and De Sole’s case is just the one that has come to trial. Among the cases the gallery settled out of court are one brought by hedge fund manager Pierre LaGrange over a reportedly fake Jackson Pollock.
Dec 1, 2011 · Nov. 30, 2011. After 165 years, Knoedler & Company, one of the oldest and most prestigious art galleries in the country, is permanently closing its doors. Opened at a time when there were no major ...
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Aug 31, 2020 · There have been a series of lawsuits over the years regarding the New York gallery’s peddling of forged Abstract Expressionist artworks, and there have been many reports about how the $80 ...
