A fancy Florida art dealer has pleaded guilty to selling cheap counterfeit copies of paintings by famed artists including Andy Warhol, Banksy and Roy Lichtenstein, as originals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A fancy Florida art dealer has pleaded guilty to selling cheap counterfeit copies of paintings by famed artists including Andy Warhol, Banksy and Roy Lichtenstein, as originals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Federal prosecutors say Bouaziz, a French national hailing from Algeria, was busted in a sting last year after trying to sell an undercover FBI agent a group of paintings that included multiple fakes for $22 million, including a copy of a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $12 million.
Several prospective buyers said they had gone to Bouaziz’s store and been shown paintings purportedly by the English street artist Banksy that would be worth millions if they were real but were being offered for $85,000. Others said that a Lichtenstein painting being sold didn’t match the dimensions of the original and that paintings purportedly by the Brooklyn-born Basquiat looked “1,000% fake,” according to court documents.
This is a fake Basquiat. At least put his name in the headline...
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