The biggest art con in NYC history: How a brazen $80M scam that fooled collectors with fake Pollock and Rothko masterpieces shook the art world and brought down Manhattan's oldest gallery
From around 1994 to 2009, over 60 fake pieces of art were sold for $80 million through Knoedler & Co. and a prominent art dealer in New York City
Established in 1846, Knoedler was one of Manhattan's most respected galleries
Long Island art dealer Glafira Rosales peddled what were supposedly masterpieces to Knoedler's Ann Freedman and dealer Julian Weissman
Rosales said the anonymous owner, the son of a 'Mr. X,' had a trove of paintings from Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock