The August issue of Maine Antiques Digest has an interesting article by David Hewitt on those fine art internet "bargains" you here so much about. Hewitt's article focuses on two Guy Wiggins paintings purchased novice collector Donald Hart for the bargain price of $14,000.00. The proud new owner contacts the 87 year old son of Wiggins for authentication. Well do I have tell you what the outcome was. Let the buyer beware.From the Maine Antique Digest Article:
Donald Hart is a self-described "novice collector" who made the cardinal mistake of buying first and authenticating later. After he bought the supposed Guy C. Wiggins paintings last year, he took them into Manhattan to get an opinion from Guy A. Wiggins, who promptly declared them fakes.
We spoke with Guy A. from his East Hampton, Long Island, New York, home, where he was in the midst of the summer move-in. He had been informed that the alleged creator, Ethem Tune "Adam" Ulge, was of Turkish extraction. "I'm very familiar now with the work of this Turk because he's been doing a lot of it," Wiggins said. "If he were a good artist or a bad artist he would have a style. This man is a bad artist, but he has a style. And I can spot it immediately. I've been seeing it show up for four or five years.
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