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Index
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60 Minutes, 7
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 98
Abstract Expressionism, 9, 38, 41–43, 45–46, 50, 57, 74, 105, 150, 152, 212, 217–18, 222
Adelson Galleries, 103, 108
Amiel, Leon, 176–92
Andrade, Jaime, 39, 42
Apollo the Luteplayer, 64, 66, 76
Apostle James, The (Rembrandt), 149–50, 152–55
Arabesque (Pollock), 38
Art Dealers Association of America, 54, 85
Art Loss Register (ALR), 122–30, 141, 166
Art Students League, 39, 195
Artvera Gallery, 23
Astor family, 37
Athenaeum portrait, 1
Austin, Donald, 186–88
authentication
Beltracchis and, 32, 35–36
Campendonk’s work and, 21, 23, 28
Christie’s and, 21, 23
Coombes and, 215
family members and, 28, 46, 108
Fine Art Treasures and, 204
Gauguin’s work and, 156
ICE and, 142
IFAR and, 9–10, 44
Jägers collection and, 35–36
Johns’ work and, 84, 95
Khan and, 163, 172
Knoedler & Company and, 37–38, 43–44
Matter paintings and, 152
Motherwell and, 47–48
older artwork and, 101, 106
Orion Analytical and, 55
Picasso’s work and, 166, 200–1
Pollock-Krasner Foundation and, 50
Sakhai and, 146–48, 151, 155
scientific advances in, 10, 12, 55
Temchins and, 200
Tiffany lamps and, 145
Trasteco and, 23
backscattered electron imaging, 55
Baker, Richard Brown, 38
Bakwin family, 113–14, 116–23, 125–31, 134–36
Barclay, James, 2
Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 85
Beltracchi, Wolfgang, 15–16, 18–20, 25, 29–36, 37–39
Bergantiños, Carlos, 39–42, 56–59
Blank, Martin, 216
Bloedel, Prentice and Virginia, 54
Blondeau, Marc, 47–48
Blum, Irving, 38
Buffett, Warren, 79
Bush, George H. W., 79
Campendonk, Heinrich, 21–25, 28–30, 35
Cardinal Riario of San Giorgio, 3–4
Caravaggio show, 64–66, 76
Carte, Anto, 140–41, 143–44, 146
Castelli, Leo, 81–82
Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings and Collages, 51, 108
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger (Perenyi), 8
Cazeau-Beraudiere gallery (Paris), 22
Cemin, Saint Clair, 86–89, 91–92
Cezanne, 18, 73, 114–22, 127–30, 134, 136–37
Chagall, Marc, 18, 146, 149–50, 157, 162–63, 175–77, 179, 183–84, 186–88, 190–91, 198
La Nappe Mauve, 149, 157
Le Bouquet Sur le Toit, 162
Story of Exodus, The, 176
Chappell, Duncan, 12
Chihuly, Dale, 214–17
Christ and the Adulteress (Vermeer), 4
Christie’s
Bakwin and, 114
Chagall’s works and, 157, 176
Flag and, 81
Gauguin’s works and, 155–56
Juene Fille and, 141
Khan and, 170
Mädchen mit Schwan (Girl with Swan) and, 20–21, 23
Pollock’s work and, 52
Sakhai and, 145, 147
Salander and, 70
Scharf’s works and, 85
Coffaro, Philip, 181–83, 185, 187–88
Cohen, L. D., 7
Cold War, 80
Coletti, Joseph, 99–102, 108–10
Convertine, Carol, 178–80, 184
Coombes, James, 214–16
Courtauld Institute of Art (London), 24, 64
craquelure, 151, 211
Crussard, Sylvie, 156
Cruz, Maria Apelo, 160–61, 163, 171–73
Cugini, Luigi, 100–12
Cultural Revolution, 40
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 36, 150, 167
Dalí, Salvador, 150, 177, 179–80, 183–84, 186, 188, 197, 204
David Herbert Collection, 38, 42, 46, 48–53, 55, 59
Davis, Earl, 71–72
Davis, Stuart, 70–71, 77, 242n24
de Guebriant, Wanda, 107–8
de Hory, Elmyr, 8, 146, 230
de Kooning, Willem, 41, 82–83, 104, 162–64, 173–74
de Ponte, Jacopo, 54–55
De Sole, Domenico and Eleanore, 45–46, 49, 55, 59
Dedalus Foundation, 47–48, 50–53
Degas, Edgar, 81, 222
DeMuro, Robert, 188
DeNiro, Robert, 68–69, 73–74
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 141–42, 216
Derain, Andre, 29
Diebenkorn, Richard, 43, 222–24
Doerner, Max, 27
Dorfman, Fred, 95
Dragon, Ted, 42
Drewe, John, 5
Eastaugh, Nicholas, 10–11, 24, 29–32, 34, 36
eBay, 189–90, 197, 199, 210–14, 217, 219, 221–27
Egg Beater series (Davis), 70
El Greco, 63, 66, 141
Elderfield, John, 43
Elegies to the Spanish Republic (Motherwell), 47
Elliott, Katherine, 215–17
English, Linda, 168–73
Entartete Kunst (degenerate art), 17
Ernst, Max, 28, 32, 35–36, 61
Erté, 188, 198
Esser, Manfred, 35
Eubanks, Kristine, 193–207
Fake! (Irving), 8
Fakes and Deception: Examining Fraud in the Art Market (Polk and Chappell), 224
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
ALR and, 123
Cugini and, 104, 107–12
David Herbert Collection and, 51, 56–59, 61
Eubanks and, 202
Khan and, 168–70, 172–73
Mardirosian and, 131–34, 136
Meyers and, 94
Qian and, 56–58
Ramnarine and, 91
Re and, 217–18, 220–21
Sakhai and, 147, 156–57
Walton and, 224–25
Zabrin and, 190
Ferus Gallery (Los Angeles), 38
Fine Art Expert Institute (Switzerland), 9
Firmenich, Andrea, 21, 23–25, 30
Fishstein, Mark, 72, 232
Flechtheim, Alfred, 18–19, 21–25, 31
Fleischman, Martin, 178–79
Fontella, Megan M., 6
Forgy, Mark, 8
Freedman, Ann, 39, 43, 45–46, 48–52, 57, 59–61, 63, 74
Frick Collection museum, 37, 69
Führermuseum, 4, 17
see also Hitler, Adolf; Nazis
Galerie Flechtheim (Düsseldorf), 21
Galerie Thannhauser (Lucerne), 113
Gardner, James, 18
Gauguin, Paul, 149, 155–56
Gauguin: A Savage in the Making (Crussard), 156
German Expressionism, 21–22
Gerston, Ron, 67
Goebbels, Joseph, 18
Goering, Hermann, 4–5
Goldblatt, Bonnie, 142–44
Goldman Sachs, 44
Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum, 214–15
Grant, Peter, 229–30
Grant, Richard, 43
Grassi, Marco, 60
Grigoryev, Boris, 229
Groeger, Lawrence, 185–86, 188
Grosz, George, 18, 24
Hadley, Nicole, 218
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 176
Haring, Keith, 85
Hart, Frederick, 82
Hebborn, Eric, 8, 230
Henty, David, 212–14, 218–19
Herbert, David, 38–39, 42, 46, 48–53, 55, 59, 79
Herbert Smith law firm, 128, 130
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), 82
Hitler, Adolf, 4, 17, 19, 140
see also Nazis
Hockney, David, 65, 195
Hoheb, Vanessa, 82
Hongtu, Zhang, 40
Hopps, Walter, 38
Hoving, Thomas, 9
Hrycyk, Don, 104, 167–68, 201, 203–4, 232
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 142
see also Department of Homeland Security
Impressionism, 9, 16, 18, 20, 114–15, 120, 128, 141, 145, 149–51, 156, 162, 195
International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), 9, 44, 122, 219–20
Irving, Clifford, 8, 38
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA), 22, 131, 231–32
Jackson, Ashley, 213–14
Jackson, Sarah, 123–24
Jägers, Werner, 15–16, 18–23, 25, 31, 33, 36–38
Janis, Sidney, 38
Jentsch, Ralph, 24–25, 31
Jewish Museum of Belgium, 143
Johns, Jasper, 79–85, 90–96
Jones, Justin, 8
Kandinsksy, Wassily, 18, 21, 176
Kelly, Ellsworth, 38
Kelly, Geoff, 131–34, 136, 232
Kelly, Jim, 45
Kennedy, James, 189–90
Kennedy, John F., 81–82
Khan, Tatiana, 160–65, 167–74
Kifer, Terrie, 198
Killala Fine Art, 47, 52–53
Klee, Paul, 18, 149, 157, 176
Kline, Franz, 38, 41
Kniebihler, Marc, 181–83, 185
Knoedler & Company, 37–39, 43–55, 57, 59–60, 233
Kops, Wilhelm, 29
Kremer, William, 33
Krizek, Miro, 89–90
Kuh, Katherine, 82
La Femme au Chapeau Bleu (The Woman in the Blue Hat, Picasso), 162–63, 165, 168, 170
La Forêt (2) (Ernst), 20, 28
La Nappe Mauve (Chagall), 149, 157
Lagrange, Pierre, 49–53, 59
Landis, Mark, 8, 230
Landschaft mit Pferden (Landscape with Horses, Campendonk), 22, 31
L’Arlésienne, Madame Ginoux (Van Gogh), 113
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, 39
Le Bouquet Sur le Toit (Chagall), 162
Léger, Fernand, 16
Lempertz auction house, 20, 22–23, 27, 31
Leung, Waiman, 183
Lichtenstein, Roy, 83
Likhite, Vilas, 104–6
Levy, Jack, 44, 49–50
Locke, Charles, 106–7
Lopez, Jonathan, 4, 8
Lost Museum, The (Feliciano), 54
Lowry, L. S., 212–14
Mädchen mit Schwan (Girl with Swan), 20–21, 23
Madoff, Bernie, 77–78, 168
Magnone, Carlo, 64
Mallen, Enrique, 165–66, 171
Man Who Made Vermeers, The (Lopez), 4
Manoukian, Martiros, 198
Mao Zedong, 40
Marc, Franz, 21
Marinello, Christopher A., 141, 143–44
Martin, James, 34, 55–56
Martin, Steve, 22, 31–32
Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting, The (Doerner), 27
Matisse, Henri, 18, 54, 107–8, 114, 143
Matter paintings, 152
McCarthy era, 80
McEnroe, John, 68, 74
McKim, Mean & White, 97
McSpaden, J. Walker, 98
Mellon family, 37, 160
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 32, 64, 114, 153, 218
Meyer, James, 83, 92–96
Milosch, Jane C., 10
Miró, Joan, 120, 150, 176–77, 183–84, 186–88, 190, 198
Mitchell, Charlene, 198–99, 205–6
Mitchell, Jonathan, 132–35, 232
Mitchell-Innes, Lucy, 53
Modernism, 17–19, 24–25, 35, 47, 67, 70, 139, 162, 175–77
Modigliani, Amadeo, 8, 73, 140, 146, 149
Monet, Claude, 35, 141, 146, 149, 230
Moore, Peter J. “Captain,” 180
Moore, Ryan, 225–26, 232
Morse, A. Reynolds, 180
Morse, Leigh, 74
Motherwell, Robert, 38, 41, 46–53
multispectral imaging, 11
Musée d’Orsay (Paris), 114
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), 1, 10
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), 109
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA; New York, NY), 43, 80, 96
Myatt, John, 5, 146
Nadolny, Jilleen, 10–11, 29, 31–34, 36, 232
National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.), 1
National Trust (Great Britain), 11
Nazis, 5–6, 17–19, 24–25, 54, 140–44
see also Hitler, Adolf; World War II
Neeson, Liam, 68
New York/New Wave exhibition, 85
“newly discovered” collections, 6
Newman, Barnett, 41, 57
Newsweek magazine, 10
Noguchi, Isamu, 82
Object of Beauty, An (Martin), 22
O’Brien, John and, 195–98, 206–7
Odalisque (Matisse), 54
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 196
O’Kelly, Michael, 8
O’Kelly, Paraic, 30
Old Masters, 9, 26, 35, 64, 151–52
Orion Analytical, 55–56
Ossorio, Alfonso, 42
Oustinoff, Elizabeth, 103–4, 108–9
Panero, James, 63, 70
Parisot, Christian Gregori, 146
Parsons, Betty, 38
Pearlman, Alexander, 73
Perenyi, Ken, 8
Picasso, Pablo
Austin and, 186
Bakwins and, 114–16, 120
Bullfight, The, 201
on Cezanne, 116
Convertine case and, 179
Cugini and, 101, 106–7, 110
Jäge
rs collection and, 18
Khan and, 160–71, 173
Kifer and Sexton and, 198
La Femme au Chapeau Bleu (The Woman in the Blue Hat), 162–63, 165, 168, 170
Nazis and, 141
Personage Endormi et Femme Accroupie, 106
private collectors and, 22, 73
Temchins and, 200–3
Trois Femmes, 200
USPIS and, 183–84
Visage de faune (Pour Leon Amiel), 177
widespread forgeries of, 150, 229
Zabrin and, 188, 190
Polk, Kenneth, 12
Pollock, Jackson
Arabesque, 38
difficulty in detecting forgeries of, 151–52
Freedman and, 51–53, 59–60
Herbert and, 38
Knoedler & Company and, 44–45, 49–51
Lagrange and, 51–53, 59
Likhite and, 104
Qian and, 41, 57
Re and, 217–21
Untitled 1950, 50
Pollock-Krasner Foundation. 50, 52
provenance, explained, 6–7
Qian, Pei-Shen, 39–41, 56–59
Raman spectroscopy, 11, 55
Ramnarine, Brian, 83–92, 96
Ratcliffe, Thomas G. Jr., 105
Rauschenberg, Robert, 81–82, 195
Re, Jovian “John,” 217–21
Reed, Victoria, 10
Rembrandt, 11, 34, 64, 66, 101, 149–55, 158, 175, 211
Remington, Frederic, 196
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 146, 149, 164
Richards, Jason, 103–4, 108–10
Richardson, E.P., 2
Robertson, Ted, 88
Rockefeller family, 37
Rockwell, Norman, 115, 196
Rosales, Glafira, 39, 41–45, 47, 63
Rosenberg, Paul, 54
Roten, Damien, 108
Rotes Bild mit Pferden (Red Picture with Horses, Campendonk), 22–25, 28–30, 32
Rothko, Mark, 38, 41, 45–46, 49, 55–57, 59, 61
Safer, Morley, 7
Sakhai, Ely, 139–41, 143–58
Salander, Larry, 63–78, 242n24
Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, 67, 69, 72–73, 75–76, 78
Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, FL), 180
Sargent, John Singer, 97–103, 108–10
Savona, Meredith, 217–21
Scharf, Kenny, 85–86, 89–90
Scully, Sean, 45
sculptures, 8, 81–91, 114, 163, 175, 214–15
Seattle Art Museum (SAM), 54
Sexton, Joyce, 198
Simpson, George, 2
Slatkin, Reed, 168
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 67
Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute, 142
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 6
Sonderauftrag Linz (Linz Special Commission)