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Tuesday, May 20th 2008

4:14 PM

Would you like a Rembrandt,... or how about owning a van Gogh?

Do you need a Rembrandt,... or how about a van Gogh?

 If you need expertise in this MFA field,... say like what is available by the supposed knowledgeable MFA experts of today,.... I'd say you had better have your own head examined first, by your favorite shrink before doing so. The so-called experts of this world would like to insinuate some of this bullshit below.

 

Anyone who consider to enter the field of art forgeries, the book “The Fake’s Progress”, written by Geraldine Norman and Frank Norman in 1977 can be warmly recommended. Tom Keating (1917–84) generously shares his 25 years of experience. Do you need a Rembrandt? No problem! Here is what to do:
Get yourself a piece of paper from the midst 1600’th, boil a couple of chestnuts on an old pan, grab a feather or two from a stone dead gull, but remember to keep a can of Nescafé in your kitchen. Then you must count a quarter of an hour of your spare time to do the rest and a bit more to let it dry on your radiator. If you have none ask your neighbour! But then your masterpiece is ready to pass it's test.

 

Keating, once yelled out for being the greatest art swindler in his own century, could deliver almost any style one could possibly ask for, such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Gainsborough, Constable, Degas, Manet and many more. Mr. Keating’s carrier started with Samuel Palmer forgeries. But Keating never was prosecuted for anything, as to the fact that he was able to convince the authorities that he had not signed the paintings himself or for that matter signed them with other names, but instead he had from the very beginning claimed them as being falsifications, copies if you like.

 

In several TV interviews Keating has educated the listeners, the public how to paint van Gogh and other great names. These statements are caught on videotape.

 

In December 1983, 137 of his falsifications brought in £80.000. Sold a piece at a time, the highest hammers stroke from 1998 the work “Odalisque, in the manner of Matisse,” which went up reaching £6.700. A self-portrait was sold for £ 5.000, and in April 1999 “Two Horse Sleighs in Winter Landscape, after Cornelius Krieshoff” brought in £6.600. It is a small painting the size of which is only 24 by 41 cm.

 



Tom Keating was an expert in “Degas”. Here you can see one of the many
 Degas-forgeries, which the market is now swarmed by.
Is this a genuine Tom Keating? One of his “ballet girls” obtained the amount of £ 4.000 on an auction.

© Preben Juul Madsen  www.artfakes.dk

eBay
The Company - Executive Team

© www.artfakes.dk
2005, 2006

Famous art forgers
(translated from Danish into English by Erik Morsing)

Han van Meegeren, Eric Hebborn, Elmyr de HoryTom KeatingJohn Myatt
(Article from The New York Times Magazine)

Pictures below will be out of vanrijngo's collection.

Buying these items at eBay makes you a looser according to artfakes.com 
http://www.artfakes.dk/index06.htm

van Gogh's last painting
Painted on July 27th 1890

Buy it now! Only $20,000,000.00

http://home.rmci.net/art-zee/newweb/vg3d.html

The seller, Bob Miller: Who the hell do these people think they are?

Bob Miller can't tell copies from original art

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Artfake.DK team at their best. I say that unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes. ... Then again, if you're a MFA dog too the rear, you probably like that view. — Treasure Valley Texas Holdem meetup Association.
"Artfake.DK team at their best.
I say that unless you're the lead dog, the views never change. ... Then again,... if you're a MFA dog too the rear, you probably like that view better anyway."

(You Don't Say)  http://vanrijngo.bravejournal.com/entry/20626 another bunch of art expertise.

Well, evidently these supposed MFA experts of artfakes.com decided to shut their own website down after only two short years and having a little confrontation with vanrijngo,.. which really wasn't even back and forth for any type of debate or dialog.  I Figure it basically had to do with what I had to say to them and about them on my own blog site.  It totally blows me away when talking with supposed art knowledgeable people, ones who have made art their own business and profession, and while expecting them to be a little more knowledgeable about their own business and different artists of this world.  Well, one thing that I find they all pretty much agree on,... are artist signatures, and if a work of art is not signed, they are pretty much in the dark, and have not one iota of an idea who the artist might happen to have been.

I'd say this should be a little bit scary for a lot of these high end art investors, who actually depend on individuals of this nature, ones involved in the art world who represents themselves as MFA experts to basically to give the art buyers truthful and correct answers about their fine art purchases.  Most all my readers are very familiar with what Picasso had to say about people in the arts who made art their business,... which more than likely caused one hell of a slow down in his creativeness and output, that is until, he understood this is what he had to live with, if he were continue his career in the arts.  I myself do understand that not one thing in my own collection will ever be considered, original until they fall into different hands.  Even then if they were ever to be known to have been in my collection, would in fact have the tendencies to cause them to be considered worthless.

Manhattan gallery involved in forgery scam? http://vanrijngo.bravejournal.com/entry/8291

In this little article above, about this long time art dealer in New York City that got caught up in this forgery scam, a person would think would make ones of other business dealing with him, a little skeptical about their own purchases.  I wonder exactly how many people, after hearing this, sent all their own purchases from him to the auction block, before they were discovered to be of the same nature. 

 

NOT painted by Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 
Wednesday, 1 February, 2006, 01:06


Watch this item

The seller, Bob Miller or Robert Miller
Attributed to Durer by myself.
Excuse me,.. for I believe I was being a little inconsiderate of Durer's works of art. I'm afraid I'll have to raise the selling price. This auction is by me (vanrijngo) now closed for the reserve price and the buying price described, but will leave up if anyone cares to bid so we can discuss between us a selling price at a later time. vanrijngo

artfakes.dk:
Look at the face and the eyes. These eyes are not from an old painting.

Take a look at Mr. Millers "art" collection including his fantastic van Gogh

Read about attributed

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Now here are some hands that Durer would paint. This is also the article put up by myself that they evidently failed to read before coming to their own conclusions and putting the above on their own website. http://vanrijngo.bravejournal.com/entry/9454

vanrijngo    

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