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Sotheby’s Hires Scientist, Addressing Art Market Wariness of Forgeries Post-Knoedler

December 9, 2016

Sotheby’s adds Jamie Martin to its ranks … a scientist who (as David D’Arcy’s article states): calls his stero microscope his “best friend” … and enhanced his reputation outside the specialized field of art science in recent high-profile investigations that focused on Knoedler & Company and Julian Weissman Fine Art. He found that both galleries had sold fakes, including a painting said to be by Jackson Pollock, for which the hedge funder Pierre Lagrange paid Knoedler $17 million in 2007.

I guess after Martin determined that Sotheby’s sold a fake Franz Hals and they had to refund the $10 million dollars the buyer paid, the auction house needed to try and help prevent this from happening in the future.

Source: Sotheby’s Hires Scientist, Addressing Art Market Wariness of Forgeries Post-Knoedler

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