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Left on Christie's Dock: The Perfect Fake That Tricked Museums

Left on Christie's Dock: The Perfect Fake That Tricked Museums

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Left on Christie's Dock: The Perfect Fake That Tricked Museums

A seemingly abandoned crate at Christie's dock held an original 30x40 oil labeled "DECORATIVE REPRODUCTION - NO COMMERCIAL VALUE" and the painting inside matched auction photos - except the original with the same image had hung in Cincinnati for 16 years. How did two experts engineer a decade-long swapping machine of frames, provenance and pigment that fooled buyers and institutions?

In this episode, we follow the discovery on September 9, 2019 and trace the process used by two men to move originals and aged forgeries through different markets, reconstructing the steps that let a copy sell for more than twice the original's earlier price and leaving one unanswered question: how many other works rode this same system?

Person: Paul Clark
Date: September 9, 2019
Artist: Gerald Oates
Work: "Morning, Reardon County"
Sale price (2003): $47,000

- The crate was found at 6:20 AM on September 9, 2019 on Christie's auxiliary loading dock.
- The painting in the crate was an original oil on canvas, 30 by 40 inches, described as chalky impasto mid-century realism.
- Gerald Oates painted "Morning, Reardon County" in 1961 and died in 1988.
- The Cincinnati sale in 2003 sold the original for $47,000 to Dennis Albright, who kept it for 16 years.
- A copy made by John Sharp sold in Philadelphia in 2005 through Robert Finch for $112,000.

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