Woodstock Vermont Film Series

Made You Look: The True Story About Fake Art + Filmmaker Interview

Expired January 25, 2021 4:59 AM
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The film explores the case of the largest art fraud in American history that brought down an esteemed gallery and left a respected art dealer with egg on her face. The central figure of the $80-million caper is Ann Freedman, a former dealer at the late Knoedler Gallery of New York. Freedman and various implicated parties explain a decade-long con in which Glafira Rosales, a petty crook from Long Island, sold Knoedler a series of masterful forgeries by Chinese artist Pei-Shen Quan. Freedman marvels how Rosales trucked out one al-legedly lost masterwork after another from contemporary artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Her voice still sparkles with true awe at the paintings. 

 

“This entertaining rubber chicken of a documentary does for the art scene what Sour Grapes did for highfalutin wine connoisseurs. It’s a wild-but-true crime caper about a masterful deception and the people who don’t recognize the true worth of the riches they value.” – POV Magazine 

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    94 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Rating
    Not Rated
  • Director
    Barry Avrich