{"id":26414,"date":"2017-04-10T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=26414"},"modified":"2024-03-26T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:35:38","slug":"forged-provenance-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/04\/forged-provenance-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Forged Provenance \u2014 FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like this is a weekly occurrence &#8230; another dealer moves to the Dark Side. \u00a0According to the FBI&#8217;s website, Eric Spoutz forged paperwork in order to sell bogus works of art by de Kooning, Kline and Mitchell. \u00a0On February 16 he was sentenced to 41 months in prison, ordered to forfeit the $1.45M he received and pay $154.1K in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>Spoutz was selling lower level works by these big name artists in order to fly under the radar. \u00a0Among his victims were dealers and auction rooms. I wonder if Hollywood will be calling?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/forging-papers-to-sell-fake-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forged Provenance \u2014 FBI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like this is a weekly occurrence &#8230; another dealer moves to the Dark Side. \u00a0According to the FBI&#8217;s website, Eric Spoutz forged paperwork in order to sell bogus works of art by de Kooning, Kline and Mitchell. \u00a0On February &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/04\/forged-provenance-fbi\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[11,9,32],"class_list":["post-26414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Forged Provenance \u2014 FBI - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/04\/forged-provenance-fbi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forged Provenance \u2014 FBI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seems like this is a weekly occurrence &#8230; another dealer moves to the Dark Side. \u00a0According to the FBI&#8217;s website, Eric Spoutz forged paperwork in order to sell bogus works of art by de Kooning, Kline and Mitchell. \u00a0On February &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/04\/forged-provenance-fbi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-10T18:31:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-26T12:35:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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