Art Market News 2014
Second Plagiarism Claim Against Jeff Koons in Two Weeks – Artnet
A Point of View: how do we know real art when we see it? – BBC News
Girl Without a Pearl? – Mauritshuis
Uzbek museum sold off artworks over 15 years and replaced them with copies – The Guardian
Danaë and Venus and Adonis – Museo Nacional del Prado
The daffodil code: doubts revived over Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks in London – The Guardian
By Jupiter! Duke’s ‘fake’ Titian is the £44m real deal – The Times
Due diligence for the untrained eye – ArteMundi
Movie Review: ‘Art and Craft’ tracks curious career of prolific forger – The Commercial Appeal
Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World – International Arts & Artists
An Infamous Art Forger on His Most Convincing Works – The New York Times
Charges Dropped in Norval Morrisseau Forgery Case – Artnet
‘Stuart Little’ helps lost Hungarian painting come home – AFP
Tatort Untergriesbach – Der Spiegel
Guess who? – The Art Newspaper
What makes a sale a restitution? – The Art Newspaper
Untergriesbacher unter Fälscher-Verdacht – BR
Der skurrile Fälscherskandal aus Niederbayern – Die Welt
Restaurator soll Renaissance-Bilder gefälscht haben – Suddeutsche Zeitung
Fabricant on the Offensive: Fatigue from B- Material – Art Market Monitor
Can an algorithm tell us who influenced an artist? -The Washington Post
Weighing the Pros and Cons of the Sotheby’s eBay Partnership – Artnet
Did Marcel Duchamp steal Elsa’s urinal? – The Art Newspaper
Teruggegeven schilderij blijkt toch geen echte Berckheyde – NRC
The princess with the Mona Lisa smile: Lost $150m da Vinci masterpiece or fake? – CNN
To Reel In Crowds, a Museum Is Showing a Fake Painting – The New York Times
Timothy Spall: How I became Mr Turner – BBC
Sotheby’s sued over ‘misattributed’ Caravaggio claim – BBC
Art forger Eric Hebborn collection sells for thousands – BBC
Rembrandt galore – The Art Newspaper
Echtheits-Prädikat für 70 Rembrandt-Gemälde – Berliner Zeitung
“E’ lei la vera Maddalena”. Svelato il mistero di Caravaggio – R.it
Clark Art Institute’s Rembrandt painting attributed to artist as debate continues. -Artdaily
Art archaeology: X-rays & the hidden Rembrandt – BBC
Do Riches Await in the Van Gogh Auction Market? – Artnet
Case Review Karlsson v. Mangan – It’s ArtLaw
Attention all Art Buyers – Caveat Emptor and then Emptor some more! – It’s ArtLaw
70 New Rembrandt Paintings Discovered -Artnet
‘Document dump’ reveals new details in Knoedler case – The Art Newspaper
Zestig schilderijen toegevoegd aan het oeuvre van Rembrandt – NRC
Inquiry: art law and attribution – Apollo Magazine
Is that a Velázquez in the basement? – The Art Newspaper
Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci painting laid bare by new scanning technique – The Guardian
A Tale of Two Leonardos – Artnet
Mystery Portrait May Be a Lost Raphael – Artnet
Sopranos’ star discovers artwork worth millions – Page Six
Artists see red over cadmium ban – The Art Newspaper
To catch an art forger – The Art Newspaper
Charges made against two men in Russian avant-garde forgery case – The Art Newspaper
Jasper Johns’ assistant pleads guilty to swiping famed boss’ works – The New York Post
Morris Louis Catalogue Raisonné goes online – ARTNews
When is art forgery not a crime? When the forger is a philanthropist – PRI
Newly Authenticated Rubens Heads to the Royal Academy – Artnet
Fakes plaguing Chinese antiques market drive boom in research – The Art Newspaper
The birth of Impressionism calculated to the nearest minute – The Art Newspaper
Christie’s sued over Australian fake – The Art Newspaper
Could computers put art historians out of work? – The Telegraph
Gallery owner claims art dealer sold him 165 fake pieces suit – New York Post
German Court Spares Contested Work – The Art Newspaper
Stolen Cini Foundation “Rembrandt” Found after 35 Years – Artnet
Fake Malevich Works in Tate Blockbuster? – Artnet
Matisse: can you spot the fake? -The Guardian
Vroege Vermeer ontdekt door ‘dna-test’ op verf – De Volkskrant
40th Poussin Authenticated in the Louvre Collection – Artnet
Faked, Forgotten, Found: Five Renaissance Paintings Investigated- CMOA
Not fake, but ‘tarted up’ – The Art Newspaper
Picasso’s The Blue Room hides a secret painting – The Guardian
Note to Forgers Don’t Forget the Spell Check – The Art Newspaper
Expert Opinion: A U-turn by the French Supreme Court – Art@LAW
Christies uses scientific proof for their sale of early Vermeer painting
Self-portrait is authentic Rembrandt, National Trust confirm – The Telegraph
Turns Out That Guy in the Painting Really Is Rembrandt, Analysts Say – Artsbeat
French Rembrandt Thief Lives Real-Life Version of ‘Goldfinch’ Story – The Art Newspaper
We don’t need the ‘new’ connoisseurs – The Art Newspaper
The $20,000 Picasso Catalogue the Art World Was Waiting For – The Art Newspaper
Antiques Roadshow painting set to sell for £500,000 – BBC
Modernizing Art History- The Wall street Journal
Rembrandt expert urges National Gallery to rethink demoted painting – The Guardian
Painting bought for €150 found to be Salvador Dali’s earliest surrealist work – The Telegraph
‘Bumpy’ canvas reveals hidden portrait of Whistler’s mistress – The Art Newspaper
Struggling Immigrant Artist Tied to $80 Million New York Fraud – New York Times
Is this Rothko Real? – The Wall Street Journal
Indictment Results How to Forge a Masterpiece – The New York Times
Announcement Art Mediation Board at The Art Market Business Conference 04-09-2014
Partner of Glafira Rosales arrested amid ongoing forgery case – The Art Newspaper
Knoedler Art Forgers Charged by US Attorney in Long Awaited Indictment – Artnet
Pastor Convicted of Trying to Sell Counterfeit Art – The Art Newspaper
Lost ‘Raphael’ surfaces in Spain – The Art Newspaper
Small Decision Big Impact – The Art Newspaper
Owner gives up fight to save ‘Chagall’ painting – BBC News
Some Forgeries Are Faker Than Others – Forbes
The Underbelly Of Art Forgery On Display At Springfield Museums – WGBH
Knoedler Forgery Lawsuit Names Art Historian as Defendant -The New York Times
Exhibition puts debate over Caravaggio’s work to the fore – The Art Newspaper
Art experts to investigate who is really behind ‘El Greco’ portrait – Herald Scotland
A sense of betrayal and suspicion grips the art world – FT
Knoedler fakes case- Rosales sentencing postponed – The Art Newspaper
Retrospective- Rediscovered Dossi Reappears on Jeep – ARTNews
Un Rembrandt volé en 1999 a été retrouvé à Nice – Libération
No more silence of the scholars – The Art Newspaper
Christie’s Pulls One Basquiat Work From Auction After Authenticity Challenge – CBS NY
Basquiat’s siblings file $1 million lawsuit against Christie’s – NY Daily News
US Attorney reveals more Abstract Expressionist fakes found in Queens – The Art Newspaper
The Con Artist- A multimillion dollar art scam- CBSNews
Елена Баснер перешла на феню – Vesti
Еще одна подделка в деле Елены Баснер – FLB
Revealed- the art experts who pass fakes as authentic – The Guardian
Avoiding fakes and forgeries- how to find the real deal – Telegraph
French court victory for art specialists – FT
Warning of ‘industrial’ trade in fake paintings – Telegraph
Can you spot the fake? – Gazettenet
Lab detectives help expose art fakes – AFP
Nuclear analysis proves Venice Guggenheim’s Léger is a fake – The Art Newspaper
Bukowskis expert gripen i konsthärva – Aftonbladet
Helsinkiläisen huutokaupan taideasiantuntija pidätettiin Pietarissa – Ilta Sanomat
Betrugsfall im Kunsthandel schockiert Petersburger Kulturszene – Sankt-Petersburger Herold
More background info on Morrisseau and the hoax of provenance here…
A Modigliani? Who Says So? – NYT
IJsbeerhaar in verf- dus een echte Pollock? – NRC
Forged painting of Turkish artist Nejad Melih Devrim discovered at Sotheby’s – Hürriyet Daily News
Is this a Van Gogh self-portrait? New book claims it is a forgery – DutchNews
Springfield exhibit explores deceit in art world – The Boston Globe
￡20 million art masterpiece owned by Scots museum is a fake, says expert – Daily Record
Russia reclaims Goncharova as her own – The Art Newspaper
From One Garage in Queens, a World of Fakes -The New York Times
Fakes still on the market as Knoedler victims sue – The Art newspaper
