Thursday, February 21, 2008

"Mr Parisot wanted to give a fraudulent provenance to the drawings so that he could increase the prices for her work"

The Art Newspaper reports on fraud charges in Paris against art historian and Modigliani specialist Christian Parisot, who is accused of faking 77 drawings by Jeanne Hébuterne, "the artist’s mistress and mother of his daughter, [who] committed suicide, pregnant and aged just 21, the day after Modigliani died in 1920."