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Originally Published 2 years ago — by The Daily Beast
A museum worker at the Deutsches Museum in Munich was convicted of stealing valuable paintings and replacing them with fakes to sell the originals. The scam was discovered when an appraiser noticed a discrepancy in one of the paintings. The employee was sentenced to a commuted prison term and ordered to repay the money earned from selling the stolen artworks.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by The Guardian
Art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz has been sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison for selling fake paintings by artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Henri Matisse. Bouaziz, who owned Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli in Palm Beach county, sold counterfeit artworks to a customer for between $75,000 and $240,000, claiming they were authentic originals. He pleaded guilty to a single count of money laundering, and prosecutors agreed to drop 16 other counts related to fraud and embezzlement.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Newser
An auctioneer from California, Michael Barzman, has admitted to creating between 20 and 30 fake paintings that he sold as authentic Jean-Michel Basquiats. Many of these paintings ended up in an exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art. Barzman worked with another person, identified as JF, to create the works, with JF spending just five to 30 minutes on each. Barzman created false provenance documents to back a story that the paintings had been sold to a screenwriter, who kept them in a storage unit whose contents Barzman bought. Barzman is now facing up to five years in prison on a charge of lying to the FBI.