October 21, 2019
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS QUALITY:
NBCUniversal Exec Ron Meyer Isn't the First Collector to Be Duped by a Fake Rothko (Helen Holmes, 10/21/19, The Observer)
For earnest art enthusiasts looking to grow their collections, the dangers are as numerous as the upsides. There's always the chance that you'll be able to acquire a timeless piece that makes you happy, but the possibility that you'll be heartlessly hoodwinked into investing in a cleverly disguised dud seems worryingly likely. The latter scenario is the one that's allegedly befallen Universal Studios vice chairman Ron Meyer, who's filed a $10 million lawsuit against two art dealers, Jamie Frankfort and Susan Seidel, who he claims tricked him into buying a forged Mark Rothko painting almost twenty years ago in 2001, as The Art Newspaper reported.
If you thought it was a work of art for twenty years, what has changed?
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 21, 2019 5:25 PM