Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Celebrated Dealer Nishimura Exposing an Art Forger, 1875, color woodblock print, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Photo in the Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World, an exhibition about art forgeries, is making its way around the country. It has been to Springfield, MA; Sarasota, FL; and Canton, OH, and will be on view at the … Continue reading
Jan Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1660, oil on canvas, 17.9” x 16.1”, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Photo by jimmiehomeschoolmom via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
By now, you may have heard about Pei-Shen Qian, the Chinese artist living in Queens, NY who forged over 60 paintings by Abstract Expressionist artists such as Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock. An art dealer from Long Island, … Continue reading