It is Amazing How Brazen Some Dealers Are

The New Orleans Times Picayune is reporting on a guilty plea from a mother and son art forgery team. It appears that the mother and son purchased Chinese oil paintings, signed the paintings, and then created fake artist biographies and sold the paintings as original creations of invented Louisiana artists.

The article reports The Breithoffs created artists. They provided collectors with invented, written biographies of nonexistent artists, complete with signatures, concocted by the Breithoffs to mask the true origin of the Chinese paintings and to establish a more marketable identity for each piece. Falgot, Shanta, S.A.M and Michel were just a few of their fictitious artists.

To read the NO Times Picayune article, click HERE.