Of them 90 days Rosales must spend under house arrest. And in addition, the defendant will have to pay compensation, the amount of which is yet to be announced. According to judge Katherine Polk Failla (Katherine Polk Failla), vimosewa sentence, the initiator of the entire portfolio with multi-million dollar forgeries was not Rosales and her former lover — Spaniard Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz. Intimidation and beatings (according to the judge, "he broke her nose, the scars on her body") he made aid to carry to Knoedler and another distinguished new-йоркскую gallery on implementation of "Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning" and "Mark Rothko" supposedly from the collections of some Swiss and Spanish collectors — a total of 63 works, which brought a total of about $80 million to the leadership of these galleries and Rosales Diaz.

In fact, all these previously unknown works came out of the garage in Queens, which served as the Studio one-единственному talented Chinese artist. In the late 1980-х Pei Shen Qian (Qian Pei Shen), who graduated from the courses of painting, drawing and lithography at the school of art, sold their work on the streets of Manhattan. There he noticed Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz. He offered him to write in the style of famous artists for a "modest" fee (given their sales in tens of millions of dollars, amounts in the $5-7 thousand seem humble), and Pei Shen Qian agreed. Today the artist, who escaped at the time of exposure of fraud from the U.S. to China, claims that he did not know that his works have been sold as originals. To heighten the similarity with the originals Jose Diaz they strongly astarial — heated, cooled, exposed to the sun etc. Fake fell on the counter Knoedler and gone for millions of dollars. the scandal has forced the oldest new-йоркскую gallery to close after 165 years of operation. Frustrated buyers of fakes, one after another began to submit to the gallery to court. The leadership of the gallery, led by Director Ann Hirdman still denies that he knew about that work fake.

as far as the main criminal genius — Jose Carlos Diaz Bergantinos — is he still in 2014, was arrested in Spain, but his extradition trial in the USA was stopped.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: nytimes.com, artinvestment.ru