Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art
Art fraud is an old story and goes back at least 100 years, to the beginning of big money art sales in Europe and America. you can go back even further to 1496 when Michaelangelo faked a cupid sculpture that was sold by an art dealer and later found to be a fake. Of course, today, that very pi

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread James Gresham
*The other red flag, IMO-- the "mysterious, unnamed original owner" of these works* That is an excellent point. Kerry Haggard always said that he had been introduced to three older collectors in Ca. They had great stuff and they were not computer savvy. No one knows them. One of them was a rec

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread lovenoir2
After reading this and a couple other articles about this, along with the seller, Glafira Rosales, the gallery that sold these works should be held 100% responsible as well as this Rosales woman. When reding that there was really no solid paperwork about the provenance of many of these supposed ma

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Richard Evans
x27;s fascinating and Welles' final dazzling triumph (if you don't count the Paul Masson ads). 9 minute(!) trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyvg4s3YMA From: Bruce Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2011, 13:44 Subject: [MOPO] It's

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Hershenson
"However, with the huge amounts of money being turned around these days, there's not too much interest in further investigation." That sounds exactly like the movie poster world of a few years ago. Remember when lots of auctions were positively FILLED with rare Universal horror? There wasn't "too

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Helmut Hamm
There is number of experts in the art world who believe this to be only the tip of the iceberg. There are many people who believe that a very significant number of high-end works of art are actually forgeries. However, with the huge amounts of money being turned around these days, there's not to

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Hershenson
trailer: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyvg4s3YMA > > -- > *From:* Bruce Hershenson > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Sent:* Saturday, 3 December 2011, 13:44 > *Subject:* [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged! > &

Re: [MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Neil Jaworski
scinating and Welles' final dazzling triumph (if you don't count the Paul Masson ads). 9 minute(!) trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyvg4s3YMA From: Bruce Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2011, 13:44 Subjec

[MOPO] It's not just horror movie posters that are forged!

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Possible Forging of Modern Art Is Investigated * http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/arts/design/federal-inquiry-into-possible-forging-of-modernist-art.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 * -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 25 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9