The unknown actual state of "artist's work" of how artworks how to create wealth in a fake

If you say "counterfeit" which is the meaning of imitation, it receives impression that it is a copy goods of a work of art, but it is unlikely that a copied work that is exactly like the real thing is actually made because actually it is easy for a copy to be fake, Many of the counterfeit works are "works imitating paintings of famous authors". These counterfeit works are difficult to judge as counterfeits unless scientific verification is done, and Bloomberg Business summarizes anecdotes related to historical famous counterfeit.

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◆ Twin's Gauguin works
Mr. Ely Sakhai who was managing a gallery in New York purchased regular artwork for hundreds of thousands of dollars and brought it to his room and had the Chinese immigrants living in the room make copies. And at my own gallery downstairs, I was selling original goods to the West and counterfeits to Asia. Mr. Sakhai who sold counterfeit under the assumption that nobody will notice, but Gauguin's work "Vase de Fleurs" in May 2000Sotheby'sWhenChristie'sIn July 2005, he was sentenced to a fine of 12.1 million dollars (about 1.3 billion yen at the time of the market) and 3 years and a half imprisonment.

◆ Verme work and Nazi party
Han van MechelenIn the 1920sJohannes VermeerAnd other Dutch painters to make huge sums of wealth. That amount is said to be around 65 million dollars (about 8 billion yen) today's worth. However, after World War II, Van Mechelen was a politician / soldier of the Nazi partyHermann Gering"Vermeer work" sold to Gerling is found among the possessions of Gerling, and Van Mechelen is regarded as a collaborator of Nazi and suspected to have caused the Dutch painting to flow out of the country, and it is subject to a trial. At the trial, Van Mechelen insisted that "the work is a fake made by himself," but he did not believe it, he made a work of Vermeer style throughout his life in order to admit that he is a fake producer It seems he continued.

The left is Vermeer's work "A woman holding a balanceIn the right, Van Mechelen made the initial Vermeer-like counterfeit.


◆ Art buyer closed due to mass purchase of counterfeit
In 2009, New York's famous art dealerNodlerIt became a topic that fake works were found at. One day a woman named Glafira Rosales came to the gallery and pressed on the owner Ann Freedman to buy artworks, Freedman bought more than 40 artworks for hundreds of dollars, and after several years I will try to appraise the work I did not know that it was a counterfeit until. The gallery closed in 2011 because the official of the hedge fund invested in the gallery closed for 2011 and Glafira Rosales who sold the counterfeit and her husband were sentenced to 99 years imprisonment for making Chinese migrants make counterfeit I am sentenced to prison.

◆ Standing statue of Getty
In Los AngelesJ · Paul · Getty Museum of ArtIt is said that "the world's richest art museum" is securing a huge budget for art collections. Because of the budgetary margin, when the figure of Hellenistic era when only 12 bodies worldwide are found is found, the Getty Museum purchases a figure by casting $ 7 million to 12 million dollars. However, it was found that the design of a group of pimples decorated with hair was not a Hellenistic style, and because of the large number of scratches on marble, it was a combination of designs from multiple eras. Even now at the Getty Museum, fake works are exhibited in the hall, and in the explanatory note it is written as "work around 530 BC or modern counterfeit".

The left is a real colos (made by a young man's naked statue) made in Greece around 560 BC, the right is a counterfeit colous purchased by the Getty Museum (commonly known as "The figure of Gettie).


◆ Draft of draft
Many painters made drafts before drawing works, and they dumped drafts after the work was completed. Existing drafts are very few, only things that are dirty and dirty. For that reason, it is very easy to imitate the finished work and make a draft of the draft, and the British painter'sEric HebourneMade fake for hundreds to thousands of drafts using old paper tailored to the era when paintings were made, but until it announces counterfeit production in the autobiography that was published in 1991 There was nothing to be done for any sentence.

The leftAnthony Van DyckThe work on the right is a fake imitated by Eric Hebourne, draft of the same work.


There are dozens of anecdotes about the counterfeit work of art work, and it is summarized in the following book in detail.

Amazon.co.jp: The Art of Forgery: Noah Charney:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/0714867454/