Two drawings on paper allegedly by the artist Richard Diebenkorn become the first of dozens of problematic works sold by the Knoedler Gallery. Also, a mysterious “Mr. X” enters the picture.
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02/08/22 • 53 min
Art Fraud - A Questionable Diebenkorn
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The art world is an unregulated business billions of dollars. It is essentially a money laundering business. You're working with an artificial scarcity of market, and so it's fraud, with people cutting corners and things happening. It was when Ann Friedman, then the newly minted director of the Knoedler Gallery, first met Gafa Rosales had a soho art opening. Larry Reuben had been pushed out of Knoedler a year earlier in a coup that ended with Ann
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