Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich to write book based on art-fraud documentary

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The book will offer new “information, evidence and inside stories” on art fraud, publisher says

Typically, the entertainment industry’s adaptation process goes like this: from book to movie. Last week, though, there was a reversal: from movie to book.

This past week, independent U.S. publisher Post Hill Press announced that it had signed prolific Canadian documentary filmmaker Barry Avrich to write a book based on his acclaimed 2020 documentary’s prestigious M. Knoedler & Co. gallery was closed as the FBI investigated the one of the largest art-fraud schemes in history.

Collectors were sold about US$80-million of art purported to be created by the likes of Rothko and Pollock, but was actually the work of a Chinese forger. (One of the collectors caught up in the con was

 

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