Galleries Bought and Sold More than $30 Million of Fake Artworks in Manhattan

[LiberalElite]

Source: Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/glafira-rosales_n_3780889.html?utm_hp_ref=arts

NEW YORK -- More arrests were planned in the criminal case against a New York art dealer accused of peddling counterfeit art for 15 years as the undiscovered works of famous artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, a prosecutor said Monday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hernandez made the disclosure at the arraignment of Glafira Rosales, 57, of Sands Point, on Long Island. Rosales, standing beside her lawyer, pleaded not guilty to a superseding indictment that accused her of engaging in the scam from 1994 through 2009.

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[Orrex]

1. Well, are they art or not?

Seems to me that if they were good enough to buy at that price, then it shouldn't matter who painted them.

Unless, of course, the museum was stupidly buying the artists' name rather than their work...

[mike_c]

2. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Excellent point.

[rrneck]

3. Yep, it's the name.

Mike Judge was on Letterman one night and after much cajoling and pleading Judge finally did the Butthead laugh. Letterman said, "Hell, I could do that!" Judge replied, "Yeah, but I thought of it first."