Knoedler Gallery: A 165-Year-Old Gallery Sold $80 Million in Fakes, Painted in a Queens Garage copertina

Knoedler Gallery: A 165-Year-Old Gallery Sold $80 Million in Fakes, Painted in a Queens Garage

Knoedler Gallery: A 165-Year-Old Gallery Sold $80 Million in Fakes, Painted in a Queens Garage

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👉 Support this show In New York, there was an art gallery that had been open for a hundred and sixty-five years. It opened its doors fifteen years before the American Civil War began, and its customers were the major museums and the richest families in America. On November 30, 2011, it suddenly announced that it was closing for good. The day before, a lab report had reached the gallery: a painting a client had bought there for seventeen million dollars was a fake. In all, this scheme sold more than eighty million dollars' worth of fake masterpieces, and every one of them was painted in a garage in Queens, New York. This episode is about the Knoedler Gallery forgery case, which has been called the biggest art forgery case in American history. Over more than a decade, sixty-three paintings came from the same hand: Pei-Shen Qian, born in 1940, who came to New York from Shanghai in 1981 and was paid only five thousand to eight thousand dollars a painting. The art agent who brought the paintings to the gallery pleaded guilty, and a court ordered her to pay about eighty-one million dollars. The Spanish businessman was arrested in Spain, and his extradition to the United States was refused. The painter went back to China before he could be charged; he was indicted in 2014 and has stayed in China ever since. What is still unclosed is the sixty-three paintings themselves. No one can say for sure whose walls they finally ended up on, or how many of them are still hanging today in the homes of the people who originally bought them. 【Timeline】 1981　A painter from Shanghai arrives in New York and paints portraits of tourists on the street 1994　An art agent walks into the Knoedler Gallery with a made-up history for the paintings 2004　A couple buys a "Rothko" for nearly eight and a half million dollars 2007　A hedge fund manager buys a "Pollock" for seventeen million dollars Nov 30, 2011　The day after the lab report arrives, the old gallery announces it is closing for good 2014　The United States indicts the painter, but he is already back in China, which has no extradition treaty with the United States 【This episode answers】 ・Why did the man who hired him want brand-new paintings instead of copies? ・For more than a decade, what held off every doubt? ・What one detail in the lab result made the whole story fall apart? 【Sources】 https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/8728596/de-sole-v-knoedler-gallery-llc/ https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/2014/three-defendants-charged-in-manhattan-federal-court-in-connection-with-33-million-art-fraud-scheme https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-80-million-art-fraud-anderson-cooper/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/glafira-rosales-knoedler-forgery-probation-840923 https://www.arcsinfo.org/news-events/entry/2253/how-science-uncovered-80-million-of-fine-art-forgeries — Background music: Unclosed Cases Intro, Unclosed Cases Underscore Bed (Google Flow Music) The narration and music in this show are AI-generated. The content is compiled from public sources, and the show contains no recordings of any real person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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