by Jon Lackman | 25 February 2008 | Crime, Modern
From The Art Newspaper:
Art historian and Modigliani specialist Christian Parisot is facing trial in Paris, accused of faking 77 drawings by Jeanne Hébuterne, the artist’s mistress and mother of his daughter, also called Jeanne … Mr Parisot told The Art Newspaper that … they are genuine and that they came from a clear-out of André Hébuterne’s studio after his death. “The [original] payment by cheque exists, it was a legal transaction,” he says … Sending Mr Parisot to trial, the French judge Henri Pons said that “Mr Parisot wanted to give a fraudulent provenance to the drawings … so that he could increase the prices for her work…he used his reputation as a Modigliani specialist [to achieve this].”
