Sold artwork admitted selling fake Picasso
ARTinvestment.RU   29 апреля 2010

Dealer from Los Angeles, Tatyana Khan was saved 2 million dollars for the work, construction of which cost her only a thousand

owner of the Los Angeles gallery Chateau Allegre Tatiana Khan (Tatiana Khan) pleaded guilty to selling fake picture of Pablo Picasso. For this creation, she was saved 2 million dollars.

few years ago, Khan has paid the artist Mary Appelo Cruz (Maria Apelo Cruz) thousand dollars for the manufacture of fake pastel entitled "Woman in Blue Hat." Cruz stated that the original was stolen from one of the dealer's clients and a copy is required for the operation to apprehend the offender. Soon Khan found buyers in the figure, which she reported that the work formerly owned by the family of Forbes. Shortly after the transaction the new owner decided to consult an expert on Picasso. He opened his eyes and that bed is bogus.

When the FBI contacted Khan in 2009, the crook said that figure was from a friend cosmetologist as collateral in 40000 dollars. According to her, the family acquired a cosmetologist work (per 300,000) shortly before the Bosnian war. Later Han "knew" that these works are from 2 to 5 million dollars and decided to make a buyer "best offer". With a beautician FBI, of course, could not talk because he had already died. Khan also managed to agree with Maria Cruz Appelo, who had been instructed to say that she only has restored the work.

70-year-old Khan was threatened as much as 25 years in prison, but the confession certainly mitigate the sentence, and it is unlikely she will hold in detention for more than 21 months. Khan promises to return the victim's money and give up its rights to the work of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning (Willem de Kooning) worth 720,000 dollars, which is a crook, allegedly bought with money obtained from selling fake Picasso.

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: latimesblogs.latimes.com /lanow , artinvestment.ru