A Provenance Under Investigation
- April 25, 2012 20:39
It is going on six months since the sudden shuttering of New York's Knoedler Gallery, yet the scandal surrounding it continues to loom large, dragging other galleries into the miasma.
A venerable American art institution for 165 years, the Knoedler Gallery’s once impeccable reputation is left with the lingering stain of the forgery scandal which broke shortly prior to its decision to close its doors.
Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, ponders whether or not the gallery, and its former president, will ever be free of the dark cloud that was the “David Herbert Collection,” and recounts the history of the imbroglio.
100x100_c.jpg "Paul Binnie (Scottish, b. 1967): A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Hokusai's Waterfalls, woodblock print, 2006")
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
