Art dealer nearly two decades of selling counterfeit connoisseurs of modern art ...

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Art dealer with a bright name Glafira Rosales already in 1993 successfully "vparivayut" generous lovers instead of fake works of famous artists. Those happy to pay tens of millions and proudly considered themselves the owners of masterpieces. Hereinafter referred to news:

In the United States began investigating sales of expensive paintings, fakes
Experts have questioned the authenticity of at least 15 paintings that art dealer Glafira Rosales sold from 1993 to 2011

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Prosecutor's Office Southern District of New York City began a joint investigation with regard to art dealer Glafira Rosales, who are suspected members of these departments, trades fake paintings, giving the work of famous artists. Experts have questioned the authenticity of at least 15 paintings, which by Rosales from 1993 to 2011 found buyers, the newspaper The New York Times. The newspaper said the art dealer was selling the works, in particular, Richard Diberkorna (if it is implemented through seven paintings), Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko. Paintings belonged to the higher price category, for example, the work of Pollock's "Untitled. 1950 "was sold for $ 17 million.

Representing clients paintings, Rosales claimed that it has access to the collection is not known to the public works of some of the great talents of the postwar period. In some cases, Rosales traded through a well-known art dealer Ann Freedman, who until 2009 was president of the prestigious American gallery Knoedler & Company. Some paintings were sold through the mediation of art dealer Julian Wiseman, who has worked at Knoedler in 1980 and officially represented the artist Motherwell in his lifetime. A few years ago sold the work of Robert Wiseman Motherwell a series of "Elegies for the Spanish Republic," which he gave Rosales. He was rescued by 650 thousand dollars for a painting. Later it became clear that the picture - a fake, the newspaper writes. The buyer - a collector from Finland - won compensation in 2009.

By the time the FBI turned its attention to the activities of Rosales, due to numerous signals from doubting the authenticity of the paintings buyers. Law enforcement bodies are gradually collected "dossier" on the art dealer. In it, according to the publication, and the case ended with the sale of another painting Motherwell. The examination showed that the paint used to create works of art was invented 10 years after writing the picture.
 
Rosales says itself that gets art from a certain "friend collector" who lives in Mexico, then in Switzerland. This one avoids publicity, publication could not go out with him on contact. The fate of the gallery Knoedler & Company, through which she worked Rosales, was unenviable. In 2007 it was closed, and it was a big surprise for the experts and participants rynka. /bfm.ru