Unfortunately, photographs exist in many editions, sometimes identifying a stolen one can be difficult unlike paintings where there is only one original. I know many quite honest and straightforward art dealers and gallery directors. But the number of flakes and cheats is quite large. A quick sampling of recent and some better-known instances:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/a...entencing.html
https://petapixel.com/2023/07/17/pho...zzling-scheme/
https://www.wxyz.com/news/birmingham...t-fraud-scheme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothko...%2C%20directly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoedler
And like restaurants, art galleries regularly go under, sometimes leaving their artists and clients in the lurch.
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