Frank Perls and Degas posthumous art

"the posthumous impressions from his canceled plates by the Frank Perls Gallery began after 1939 some twenty-two years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917."

"Edgar Degas died in 1917. The ten so-called "sculptures in bronze" and "etchings" in the Denver Art Museum's February 11 to May 2018 Degas: A Passion for Perfection exhibition were posthumously cast and impressed after 1919 till as late as 1981, some 2 to 64 years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917."

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Degas: A Passion for FAKES at the Denver Art Museum

GARY ARSENEAU

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Related reading:

https://rosettaapp.getty.edu/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=FL4157601

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/152785/the-lecturer-le-lecteur


http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/2013/03/degas-forgeries-bait-and-switch-at.html

http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/2018/03/making-wrong-impression-arthur-ross.html

Nazi looted art: deception by provenance authors

The scale of deceptive practices by art market professionals concerning Holocaust-related looted art is under-appreciated.

The web of complicity is tough to break through, and it is rather depressing to even try. 

However, inspired by recent events, we will in this next series of posts, attempt to highlight of few of the tricks used by various art market actors to disguise what they clearly suspect to be illicit origins.

In this first post, we revisit the El Greco, Portrait of a Gentleman, that was part of the Julius Priester collection before the Holocaust. 

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