A 65-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were charged last week with trying to sell six fake Warhol pieces to a collector. The couple told the collector that the subject of the art was Mathew Baldwin, one of the famous Baldwin brother actors. The pieces were signed and dated in 1996.
After giving the couple a down payment of $25,000, the man took the art to an appraiser in California. The appraiser informed the man the art was fake because there was no Mathew in the famous Baldwin family. He also pointed out that the signatures were forged because Warhol died in 1987, charging documents state.Couple charged with trying to sell fake Warhols (Via Museum of Hoaxes)
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It's nice to know the world still has rich idiots out there who are willing to plunk down cash for things that a 5 second Google search would show to be fake.
Somehow I feel that Andy would have found that really funny.
Okay, so Warhol died nine years before they were made, and there is no Matthew Baldwin, but how does that make the images fake Warhols? I'm not sure I follow.
;)
He had heard that this would be priceless since the death of the Baldwins at the hands of the Canadians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park:_Bigger,_Longer_%26_Uncut
and now the couple gets their 15 minutes.
At least the art involved took more effort, smelled better and was easier to display than an installation containing a pickled shark.
...but there is a defective yeti by the name Matthew
Baldwin...
Even funnier that the forgers would be so sloppy. Like they derive that extra bit of pleasure out of being obvious about it.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm not an art forger, nor a fraud artist. But if I were to go down that route, I think I'd assume something that obvious and stupid would fool no one and work hard at concocting something plausible. But apparently...
OK, signed after death is pretty good fake-litmus. But even ones from when Warhol was alive are up for discussion, apparently.
65-year-old guy with a 29-year-old woman.
Well done, sir.
Wait a minute, those are the same people that sold me Leonardo da Vinci's motorcycle!
Clearly a fake--my name has two Ts.
Damn you Higgs boson particles!!! Have you no shame?!?
Depends on whose idea this whole scheme was.
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art ?"
-Kipling
There are two too many syllables in that first line. Who is this Kipling chappie? Not much of a poet...