German police is on the trail of counterfeit Dadaists
ARTinvestment.RU   10 сентября 2015

Recent German art-рынок filled base forgery artists-дадаистов

Art-the German market was flooded with low quality fakes, designed for inexperienced art lovers. Basically, forge work, in an easily reproducible techniques — for example, Dadaist collage. Recently surfaced the story of the artist-Dada Carl Waldman, who, apparently, never existed and was a figment of the imagination of a gang of swindlers. Works Waldman, however, was successfully sold at auction and even get caught in one state galerey@

most of the fakes are sold through Internet platforms like eBay, where in too big a stream of sentences difficult to spot unscrupulous advisors. On the traditional live auction, they are less common — reputable auction houses, as a rule, still manage to calculate the fake before she gets on Torgi@

according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the prices of fake deliberately underestimated to whet the interest of speculators. Rely on them and also on unsuspecting users, rush to such a tempting offer in the hope that the owners are not aware of the true value of the works sold. In most such cases to attract sellers to justice not because they avoid clearly articulated atribute@

In the media regularly flashed stories about accidental purchases masterpieces for pennies at flea markets or auctions. After reading these stories, more and more collectors dream that buying untested items at a lower price will turn them handsomely. 

to Forge Dadaist collage easiest way: a couple of logs for the appropriate era, a little glue, a sharp political statements, and voila — work in the style of some famous Dadaist sort of George Grosz gotova@

the Exact number of rotating on the art market of counterfeits is difficult to determine. It is also unclear whether the art market is dealing with forgers alone or in an organized group moshennikov@

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru



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