NEW YORK TIMES: By PATRICIA COHEN: Bargain hunting online? How about an original Rembrandt for $900 (“you can clearly tell its age by the paper,” the seller of this etching attests), or a signed piece in ink by Matisse for $1,250. (The artist’s work is, the online seller notes, “radical and unprecedented in the history of Western art.”)
A Google image search reveals that multiple galleries are selling a black elephant sculpture online that the Calder Foundation says is not a work by Alexander Calder. The gallery owner David Crespo, who is involved in a case concerning fake Picasso drawings.Yes, Sotheby’s can command more than $100 million for a Picasso at auction. But shoppers on the Web can find an “original” painting by that master for a mere $450 — less than a pair of designer shoes. Read Source here