Connecticut Collector Alleges Fraud Over Sculpture Sale
- August 24, 2014 16:13
A Greenwich, CT., art collector is again taking legal action against a Manhattan art dealer with new claims of fraud and charges of racketeering.
Richard McKenzie, Jr., alleges that Robert Fishko, of Forum Gallery in New York, sold him a fake Renoir, brought up in a suit filed last spring in Superior Court. The collector has also made claims that he and his art foundation were defrauded of $3.5 million, largely through inflated prices.
McKenzie's latest allegation involves a bronze work titled "Amour et Psyche II," presented as by Rodin, that the collector says he paid Fishko $235,000 for and that it was later not authenticated by the Rodin Committee in Paris. Fishko says that the price was for a group of works, and the deal was more complicated than presented by McKenzie.
The case has been moved to U.S. District Court.
