Beware, fake pictures!

[Евгений]

"Sale of Konstantin Korovin. Paris.
The exchange for famous Armenian artists.
I will answer only to serious offers. "http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=192841
Topic author: user under the name "Thutmose" http://forum.artinvestment.ru/member.php?u=470851
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 Jane Doe:
 "On the topic Korovin"
From the comments: "As for the picture at the beginning of the branch. That is about the one that called the work Korovin.

With full responsibility I can say, it is one of the worst fake pictures under Korovin this genre, which I had seen in recent years. It is clear that the author of the most wanted to mislead the potential buyer, but, alas, not out.
Based on the fact that this work has not been seen in public places, as the user Thutmose vigorously defended the position he is right, we can assume that it is either a victim of fraud (someone bought this little thing), or has a direct relationship with the manufacturer of the daub.
All those who spoke out against the authenticity of "Korovin" were absolutely right. Was even absurd plot.
View some regularity in fraudulent subjects with night Paris. Last are the most common in Europe and there are set for the implementation of the auctions. As an example - Doktor Fischer, Agutte's and others.
In the Americas, taken fashion fake winter scenes, the ones who Korovin from homesickness wrote in the 30's in Paris. (It is known that the Russian winter and restaurants Korovin wrote under orders to Russian emigrants in France).
Authors fakes changing the position of characters, buildings, and snatching items from other previously published original works Korovin, lose their minds, make mistakes, not only compositional and anatomical, no sense of color, light and shade are neglected, and the prospect of allowing gross grammatical errors.

Take for example a few stylized Korovin winter scenes that have neither any relationship to the work of Konstantin Korovin.

At a recent auction Gene Shapiro, one of the two counterfeit Korovin was a winter scene in which poddelschik signs reminding the specimen signatures of the prerevolutionary period. (Signed in Cyrillic but in the end ive).

Three more pictures from the series of winter, too counterfeits.
In the last photo with the colors clear. But it is not clear how the signature of the French came again revealing Yat?
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[Art-ort]

"Birochniki" perefuflili party paintings, now sold as Lebedev and Kasatkina.

Phone call from 8-960-4570550.
Be careful!

[Евгений]

Continuing the theme "detained in Moscow merchants fake paintings" http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=157341

Artists and Dean Alexander Chernov was sentenced to 4 and 2 year in prison respectively for 800 forged paintings
27/03/2013

Izmailovo Moscow court on March 27 sentenced the artist Alexander Chernov and his daughter Dinah, who were accused of forging paintings, and two to four years in prison, respectively. On it informs RIA Novosti.

The court found guilty Chernovs that they forged paintings and graphics Russian avant-garde, and then sold fake works. Chernov, in particular, was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group on a large scale) and will meet four years in a penal colony. Dina Chernova but this article will serve his sentence in prison under part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code (illegal purchase and possession of drugs.)

In February, a result indicated that Chernovs Fulfilled 800 fakes, including paintings, allegedly by Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova. In total, the works were sold for 20 million rubles.

[K-Maler]

Сообщение от Eugene, 2508181

Three more pictures from the series of winter, too falsifik

These five themes are made with one hand, the latter can be, too - like the upper sea, where the water ...
it can bydo would calculate this artist, if he is exposed elsewhere.
He received his education.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от K-Maler; 2530201"

These five stories are made with one hand , the latter can be, too - like the upper sea , where the water ... it can bydo would calculate this artist, if he is exposed elsewhere .

Read carefully at what it sold auction shit .. and you 'll "compute " fuflodelov ?
Dear artists Pavel, K-Maler,, big favor , do not abuse this topic ..

[vyadem]

another bullshit.

[Тихая Сапа]

Well, in the end become arrogant!
Serov, poor.
izvertelsya already in the coffin!

[Евгений]

Вложение 1982561
Fraudsters have forged more than 400 paintings by artists of the avant-garde (photo guardian.co.uk)
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 On Thursday, June 13 German police officers reported the arrest of two members of an international gang who copied works of Russian avant-garde artists and presenting them as original.
  Two men aged 67 and 41 had been arrested during a series of special services raids. In raids involved more than 100 police officers who visited a number of apartments and offices in the regions of Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Hamburg.
  Presumably, the detainees were organized gang. At the moment, they have the status of the main suspects in the case. Nationality of those arrested were not disclosed. As a consequence of being in respect of the other four members of the group. According to the intelligence services, the criminal group included citizens of Russia and Israel, as well as German and Tunisian.
  During the searches, police managed to seize not only the fake, but a fake and equipment certification.
  Criminal groups around the world since 2005. Fun with exactly copied the style of Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Mikhail Larionov and other Russian artists. Then the pictures were sold in art galleries and private collections, posing for the original, but previously unknown works of art.
  Total scammers managed to sell more than 400 paintings and help out a few million euros.

[Магнолия]

Eugene, forgot to give a link to the source of the message.

[Konstantin]

Here's more detail about this in bold funny statement:

«NewsBalt» translated the material published by the British edition «Guardian», devoted to the arrest of scams involved counterfeit works of famous Russian artists.

German authorities have uncovered a group of crooks who have already earn about a million pounds, specializing in forgery of works of Russian avant-garde artists, including Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova.

About 100 federal police (German BKA) on Wednesday and Thursday, 12 and 13 June 2013, made a raid on a private possessions, offices, stores and art galleries across the country. Two suspects, aged 67 and 41, are suspected of being the leaders of the criminal group of 6 people were arrested during a raid in the city of Wiesbaden, which were seized thousands of fake paintings.

The search also led to Switzerland and Israel, according to their results still to be decided, according to the BKA.

Con artists allegedly sold more than 400 counterfeit works of art, written in the style of artists such as Kandinsky and Malevich. Also found that the suspects forged certificates of authenticity to create the impression that the paintings are previously unknown works.

According to the police, with the picture of them (scammers) can be obtained from four to seven round euro amounts. Two paintings-counterfeiting may have been sold in the period from 2011 and 2013 for a total amount of € 2 million (£ 1.7 million) to customers in Germany and Spain.

In July 2012, the Spanish police have arrested four people in an attempt to sell a fake work of Pablo Picasso's "Bust of a young man" for £ 1 million.

The high prices offered at auction, made of Russian avant-garde for the main purpose of fraud, says Rainer Grubel, who specializes in Russian art at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.

- It is tempting to forge the work of some artists - he said.

Kandinsky is especially popular in Germany, as He lived here in the 20s of the last century. Born in Moscow in 1866 Kandinsky repeatedly moved from Russia to Germany, where he taught at the School of Painting and Architecture "Bauhaz" until it was closed in 1933 by the Nazis.

Grubel said that Kandinsky and Malevich were well-known fact that "broke the tradition of European painting of the time", the style of which was "reproduction of reality in the picture."

- Malevich did this by painting with no object - painting, free from the object, and resorted to abstract Kandinsky, reproducing all the features of reality by means of contours and shapes, - he explains.

In addition to its popularity and high prices at auctions, avant-garde art is easier to forge than other work, said William McDougall, director of the auction McDougal.

- It is known that of the avant-garde is the main subject of forgery only for stylistic reasons - the expert - not so difficult to write a persuasive black box. It is much more difficult to forge, such as Rembrandt.

McDougall said that most of the work has been denied for auction on the grounds that it is difficult to say they are authentic or not.

- Of course, much safer to buy at auction, as it is a public event, and the works of art exhibited reported in a couple of months, so that people can identify fake, - he added.

There are also other ways to determine the authenticity of the works, such as the study of the origins, including a history of buying and selling, although it is not always possible, Grubel said.

BKA employees say they were able to deal a "decisive blow" to the international network of fraudsters involved in counterfeiting.

- I see this as yet another example of the importance of international cooperation between law enforcement agencies in the fight against organized crime, - the head of the BKA Jörg Circus.