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The Knoedler Gallery Forgery Scandal
For over 15 years, the venerable Knoedler gallery sold some 40 forged Abstract Expressionist paintings — fake Rothkos, Pollocks, and de Koonings painted in a Queens garage — for around $80 million, before the fraud collapsed the 165-year-old institution.
Pei-Shen Qian
Chinese-born painter in Queens who produced the fake Rothkos, Pollocks, and de Koonings at the heart of the Knoedler Gallery scandal — the fraud that toppled New York's oldest art gallery. Indicted in 2014, he fled to China, which does not extradite its citizens.
José Carlos Bergantiños Díaz
Spanish dealer who, with his partner Glafira Rosales and brother Jesús Ángel, orchestrated the Knoedler forgery scheme — sourcing Pei-Shen Qian's fakes and inventing a mysterious anonymous collector, 'Mr. X', as their provenance.
Jesús Ángel Bergantiños Díaz
Brother of José Carlos Bergantiños Díaz and a participant in the same Knoedler Gallery fraud, helping to age and distribute the fake Abstract Expressionist paintings that deceived collectors out of some $80 million.
Glafira Rosales
Art dealer who supplied the Knoedler Gallery with dozens of forged Abstract Expressionist works painted by Pei-Shen Qian, backed by a fabricated story of a secret collector. She pleaded guilty in 2013 in a fraud totalling around $80 million.
