American art dealer was accused of 20 fakes

The American art dealer Glafira Rosalez is accused of selling 20 fake works of art, including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rotko, OpenSpace reports with reference to The New York Times .

The first scandal erupted in 2007, when a fake was sold for 650 thousand dollars, Robert Mazerwell’s painting from the Elegy about the Spanish Republic.

In 2009, after long trials, Rosalez was forced to compensate the buyer for the damage, but the scandal forced everyone who had ever bought art items from her, to doubt their authenticity and turn to experts.

As a result, it was found that a fake is another painting by Mazeruella - the paint used in it was invented ten years after the death of the artist. Regarding another 18 paintings, experts cannot come to a consensus.

A considerable part of the art of art was sold not through their gallery, but through the respected American gallery Knoedler & Company, which, having survived 150 years, unexpectedly closed shortly before the collector who bought Jackson Pollok “without name” (1950) in Knoedler $ 17 million, reported That is a fake.

Anne Friedman, who headed Knoedler & Company during the conclusion of a scandalous transaction, claims that she never doubted the authenticity of the work that came from Glafira Rosalez, despite the fact that Rosalez often could not provide accompanying documents.

Rosalez herself explains this fact by the fact that the owner of most paintings she sells does not want to reveal her name. A lawyer representing the interests of one of the injured collectors reports that the name of the “source” of fake paintings John Herzso, that he lives in Switzerland and sells the collection inherited from his father - the artist and the owner of the gallery in Mexico Gunther Herzso, but it was not possible to contact this person.

In connection with the advent of fakes, the FBI is investigating.