For subscribers: He sold $1.1 million in art to high-end galleries and collectors. They were fakes.
The provenance of the never-before-seen Barkley Hendricks painting — a stylish portrait of an African American man in a powder-blue suit, set against a monochromatic mustard background — was said to begin with a shared love of jazz.
Harrington’s scheme involved creating paintings in the styles of famous artists and selling them as newly discovered pieces rather than known works. The 15 victims involved were not identified., a street artist who gained fame with his “Shadowman” figures in the 1980s.Thank you for your support.How Harrington, a native San Diegan with a graphic art design background, became involved in art forgery is not entirely clear.
Forgery of contemporary art — or works created by living or recently deceased artists — is a fairly new development in the art world, mainly because it is much riskier gambit, said Elisabeth Sann, a director at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and the liaison to Hendricks’ estate. In an email, Harrington told the gallery owner that the portrait was of his uncle, Larry Curry, and that Harrington inherited the painting years earlier.But when it came time for Hendricks’ widow to authenticate the painting, there was a problem.
His works are held in several prominent collections, including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Harrington was offering one supposed Hambleton for $15,000, a 72-by-62-inch work on unstretched canvas showing two black mirror-image silhouettes in a midair pose. He said the work was signed by the artist and dated ’09.
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