Results for “rothko”

Case

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.

Person

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.

Mishap

Chocolate, Politics, and a Rothko

Days after Vladimir Umanets defaced a Rothko at Tate Modern, performance artist Jubilee Brown scrawled his name across another Rothko, 'Black on Maroon', using paint mixed with chocolate.