The fall of the Knoedler Gallery, once one of the premier art houses in Manhattan, which collapsed in 2011 amid allegations that it had sold more than three dozen fake paintings by the likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, became the subject of the terrific Netflix documentary Make You Look in 2020. The question has always been whether the gallery and its director, Ann Freedman, knew the paintings brought to her by Glafira Rosales and painted by a Chinese immigrant in Queens were indeed fakes and not, as Rosales claimed, from an anonymous collector hiding his gay affair with the benefactor that gave him these paintings, thus explaining the lack of paperwork that would have proved their provenance. (Yes, we know this sounds absurd, but hey, it’s the art world!) Barry Avrich, who made the documentary, revisits the subject with new interviews and fresh details in The Devil Wears Rothko, and the tale as told in his book is even more of a doozy than what the film revealed. The ideal beach read, especially if the beach is on the French Riviera or in the Hamptons.Heck, given where the fakes were painted, Rockaway Beach in Queens will do just as well.
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