You've got a head start with that one, with the majority of the tin-
eyed market having no actual appreciation of art and only being in it
for the bragging rights.
And ripping off gauche oligarchs, morally you'd be in Robin Hood
territory.
On 3 Dec 2011, at 13:55, Neil Jaworski wrote:
There's a helluvalot more money in forging art than in forging
posters.
I'm sure any MOPOer worth their salt will have seen Orson Welles'
wonderfully playful film-essay F For Fake about uber-forger Elmyr de
Hory. If not, you should definitely give it a whirl. It's
fascinating and Welles' final dazzling triumph (if you don't count
the Paul Masson ads).
9 minute(!) trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyvg4s3YMA
From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2011, 13:44
Subject: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!
Possible Forging of Modern Art Is Investigated
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/arts/design/federal-inquiry-into-possible-forging-of-modernist-art.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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