David Voss pleaded guilty to counts of forgery and uttering forged documents Tuesday for operating an art fraud ring out of Thunder Bay between 1996 and 2019. Voss oversaw the creation of thousands of forged artworks falsely attributed to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, said the agreed statement of facts read in court.
Morrisseau, who died in 2007 at age 75, was a renowned artist from the Ojibway Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation in northwestern Ontario. He's known as the founder of the Woodlands School of art and his work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada, including at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. The Canadian Conservation Institute compared suspected forgeries with paintings known to be securely attributed to Morrisseau, said the statement of facts. When they examined the works with digital infrared photography, the suspected fakes showed carbon drawings under the paint, consistent with graphite pencil, it said.
He claimed most of the forgeries were painted in the 1970s, and would sand or rub carbon paper on the canvases to make the paintings look older, said the statement.The two main local buyers and distributors of Voss ring forgeries in Thunder Bay were Rolf Schneiders, who died in 2015, and Albert Azzolini, a consignment store owner, according to the statement of facts.From the late 1990s onward, the majority of the forgeries were resold through two Port Hope, Ont.
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