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