Saturday, 30 April, 2005, 10:54
Take a look at all five "de Kooning":
http://www.artfakes.dk/dekooning-5.htm
Has Mr. Eric I Spoutz, founder and president of the Eric I. Spoutz Collection of Fine Art, who announced to sell 2.800 works of art, been exposed to fraud himself? Is he just a poor victim, or is this man one large-scale art swindler?
Mr. Eric I. Spoutz is not an art expert. This you can easily see from the amateur copies he is selling, an act one can only interpret as confidence tricks. The paintings never was painted by the persons, the well-know artists, whose names are shamefully written on the canvas, these famous signatures are all together forgeries – of course, they must be. If you love art, if you care for it, this could never cross your mind, to falsify a signature.
The paintings are offered as attributed, but at the same time with “fine” papers like proveniences. These papers seem to be pure hanky-panky. Only a couple of weeks ago these papers, signed by an art historian, Mr Castle, spun a yarn about a deceased Mr Julius R. Wolf, who, according to Mr. Spoutz, should have participated in W.W.II, although Mr. Wolf was born in 1930 again according to Mr. Spoutz? Now, after artfakes unmasking the fairytale, Mr Spoutz has corrected the text about the late Wolf. Now the latter, (Mr. Spoutz tells us), has participated in the Korean War instead. Sorry, A mistake on my behalf!
All about Mr. Spoutz is untrustworthy, all “stories” that he comes up with seem to be lies, and this person should be excluded from eBay for good. This one individual, Eric I, Spoutz, turns it into a rumble-place, where humbug, fraught and swindle flourish, a low-rank internet address for dealing, not with art, but with forgeries, falsifications and pure fake.
Friday, 29 April, 2005, 01:31
Watch the sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7318335119
The seller is not an art expert and cannot use Attributed to
http://www.artfakes.dk/attributedto.htm
Thursday, 28 April, 2005, 12:10
Watch the sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7316826642
Only art experts can add the designation “attributed to”.
Numerous sellers at eBay use the designation “attributed to” and think thereby to have no responsibility towards less gifted buyers. But this append has only validity when it comes from an art expert. Otherwise the designation “attributed to” one can compare with confidences tricks aroused from the seller’s mind with the purpose of cheating the buyer who might or might not know much about art.
When a painting by professionals has the append “attributed to”, it means that the picture in question might come from the inscribed person. But very few attributed pictures coming from eBay can do this. Here the designation is used uncritical, if not uninhibited and at random, and, worst of all, by non-experts.
Below you will find generally used statements from the worlds leading auction houses.
Sotheby’s:
Attributed to:
“In our opinion probably a work by the artist”.
Christie’s:
Attributed to:
“In our qualified opinion a work of the period of the artist which may be in whole or part the work of the artist”.
Read also Alan Bamberger’s deepened explanation about the expression: “attributed to”
Bamberger is an art consultant, advisor, author, and independent appraiser specializing in research, appraisal, and all business and market aspects of original works of art, artist manuscript materials, art-related documents, and art reference books. He has been selling art since 1979 and rare and scholarly art reference books since 1982, and has been consulting and appraising for artists, galleries, businesses, organizations and collectors since 1985.
Bamberger has written about the art business since 1983 in a number of the most known art magazines and professional papers.
http://www.artbusiness.com/atribart.html
Wednesday, 27 April, 2005, 11:03
Watch the Sale
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7318450235
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