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Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis
When Chowaiki was offered the deal of a lifetime, he found himself in a confounding world of counterfeits.
I needed advice on how to do this, so I called Randol Schoenberg, the Los Angeles lawyer who had helped retrieve the plundered Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, by Gustav Klimt, which is now the jewel of the Neue Galerie in New York. Randy was immediately interested in the case and agreed that I should get the works authenticated by the pertinent experts: Wanda de Guébriant for Matisse, Vivian Barnett for Kandinsky, the Comité Marc Chagall, the Toulouse-Lautrec committee, the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam. While Jimmy’s collection purportedly came from Yugoslavia, Peppa claimed that her father, an officer in the Greek Resistance, had obtained the paintings during the Second World War when the Germans put thousands of plundered artworks onto a train they sent to Greece for safekeeping.
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