Fake Picasso Sells for $2 Million.
By Eric Hill • Apr 28th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the InterwebThe question of artistic authenticity is a great one if you love falling asleep, but here’s an interesting story out of Los Angeles; an art restorer was paid a cool grand to recreate Picasso’s classic-possibly-but-who-knows painting “The Woman in the Blue Hat”, for a scam sale of $2 million. (View original painting)
70-year-old Tatiana Khan eventually pleaded guilty to the fraudulent sale, which we can only assume actually went through before anyone noticed a problem. A department of justice spokesperson said “Khan falsely told an FBI agent who was investigating the sale that Khan had obtained the drawing from an acquaintance,” and if she actually used the word “drawing” to describe a Picasso forgery, that’s amazing. It makes even more sense when you compare the two works together, apparent duplicates they may be, and lucky for you TORO has obtained an exclusive scan of Khan’s product (View forgery)
Khan faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years, which seems a little steep. After all, let the buyer who has millions of dollars to spend on a painting but not enough time to check it over for eraser shavings beware.
See original article on the Toro Magazine website.
Eric Hill is the editor of branta.
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