{"id":2194,"date":"2024-08-01T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2024-08-01T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:22:55","slug":"us-tech-company-may-have-tried-to-exhibit-unauthenticated-basquiat-painting-at-major-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/us-tech-company-may-have-tried-to-exhibit-unauthenticated-basquiat-painting-at-major-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"US Tech Company May Have Tried to Exhibit Unauthenticated Basquiat Painting at Major Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_jean-michel-basquiat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"jean-michel-basquiat\">Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>\u00a0painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Co2Bit privately exhibited another painting of dubious provenance as genuine in a major museum.\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">reported last month<\/a>\u00a0that the company helped to show a painting with disputed attribution to Russian modernist Kazimir Malevich at the Centre Pompidou in January. The Centre Pompidou told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0last month that it had not granted permission to exhibit the artwork.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\" class=\"admz \">\n<div class=\"adma boomerang \" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"1\">\n<div class=\"pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text\" data-priority=\"10\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Thiago Piwowarczyk, the CEO of New York Art Forensics,\u00a0a Brooklyn-based art authentication laboratory, told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0that an intermediary, who claimed to work for Co2Bit, hired him to authenticate and appraise the Basquiat painting last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">\u201c[The intermediary] asked me if I wanted to be involved in [exhibiting the painting at MoMA], and I said, \u2018Negative. I don\u2019t want to be involved in this,\u2019\u201d Piwowarczyk said. \u201c\u2019I don\u2019t think you should be doing this. You can\u2019t go around talking about something that isn\u2019t [authenticated].\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">MoMA told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cfor-profit and nonprofit organizations\u201d can rent certain spaces, but that the museum is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\">unable to accommodate personal events<\/a>.\u201d When asked if those renting such spaces could hang artwork on the wall, MoMA said, \u201cUnfortunately not. The Museum does not permit any outside artwork in any situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Co2Bit\u2019s stated mission is to use AI and blockchain technology to assess environmental impact. The company purchased the supposed 1915 Malevich painting, titled\u00a0<em>Suprematism<\/em>, for a price \u201cin the seven figures\u201d from disgraced Israeli art dealer Itzhak Zarug before hiring several experts to authenticate it. However, one of the experts, Patricia Railing, denied this, claiming she\u2019d never heard of Co2Bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">A series of now-deleted press releases published by Eminence Rise Media, a New York PR firm, on GlobeNewswire promoted\u00a0<em>Suprematism<\/em>, stating that it was due to be \u201cunveiled by museums around the world.\u201d The same PR firm also promoted the supposed Basquiat painting, titled\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>, in three releases posted between December 2023 and February 2024 that have also been deleted. One release said that New York Art Forensics appraised the artwork for $90 million and claimed it was set to \u201cbe unveiled in top museums across the United States soon.\u201d Neither of the press releases for\u00a0<em>Suprematism<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>\u00a0mentioned Co2Bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Eminence Rise Media declined to comment on if it had been hired by Co2Bit and said that it would only comment on\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>\u00a0if\u00a0<em>ARTnews\u00a0<\/em>deleted mention of the PR firm in the publication\u2019s reporting on the Malevich-Pompidou story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">\u201cIt has come to our attention you [<em>sic<\/em>] slandering and accusing this company in regards to the Malevich painting, where we had nothing to do with that painting,\u201d the company wrote in an email. \u201cIn spite of you confirming Co2Bit as the company responsible for it, your false and phony accusations is [<em>sic<\/em>] unethical on your end as a journalist. If you have some integrity, you must delete our name from it. Please make it right and we will be willing to communicate further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">In the first of three phone calls with\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>, Piwowarczyk said the intermediary was a French man who claimed to be \u201can associate of Co2Bit.\u201d He said the man paid in full before Piwowarczyk and his colleague at New York Art Forensics, Jeffrey Taylor, authenticated and appraised\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>. However, during the second call, Piwowarczyk backtracked, saying he had been paid only half the fee, which the intermediary managed to negotiate down from $12,000 to $6,000 because Piwowarczyk said he \u201cfelt sorry for him.\u201d In the final call with\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>, Piwowarczyk said he had received the full $6,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Despite telling\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0several times that he would divulge the name of the intermediary, in the end Piwowarczyk refused to do so. He added that the authentication of\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>\u00a0was \u201cconditional\u201d and said that the appraisal remained unfinished because the intermediary failed to provide any provenance records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">\u201cTechnically, we finished the authentication, but it doesn\u2019t authenticate it positively,\u201d Piwowarczyk said. \u201cThere is no provenance\u2014they don\u2019t have a signed appraisal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">(Piwowarczyk declined to provide\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0with any reports or documentation he had given the intermediary.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \"><strong>Faked Basquiats Proliferate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">The title of\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">appears to be a reference<\/a>\u00a0to a phrase that appears in the 1983 Basquiat painting\u00a0<em>Hollywood Africans<\/em>, which is in the collection of the Whitney Museum in New York.\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>\u00a0portrays the black outline of a head and two golden crowns against a pale green and brown background. The work also contains the word \u201cSAMO\u201d\u2014a reference to Basquiat\u2019s graffiti tag, which was short for the phrase \u201csame old shit.\u201d Press releases for the painting highlighted these motifs, which recur frequently throughout Basquiat\u2019s oeuvre. One release referred to the \u201csignature\u201d crown imagery portrayed in\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Basquiat\u2019s oeuvre has in recent years become a battleground as the authorship of works in his name receives widespread scrutiny. In 2022, for example, the FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art after it was accused of exhibiting fake Basquiat paintings. A Los Angeles auctioneer later admitted to the FBI that he and a partner created the paintings. The museum went on to sue its former executive director and other staff members, claiming they were involved in a plan to profit from the eventual sale of the bogus artworks. That former director, Aaron De Groft, has claimed that the Basquiats were real; he countersued the museum last year. A verdict in the cases is not expected until August 2025 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">In 2002 artist Alfredo Martinez forged 17 Basquiat paintings and tried to sell them. He was arrested and received a 27-month prison sentence. He later described his attempts to find buyers for these faux Basquiats as a \u201cgag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">There is no longer a Basquiat authentication committee. In 2012 it was disbanded after 18 years of operation. Several lawsuits over the legitimacy of certain paintings had hit the committee, which was run by the Basquiat estate, and those legal actions ultimately led to its closure. Three months before that, the Andy Warhol Foundation shut down its own authentication committee after spending millions on legal disputes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Richard Polsky, the founder of Richard Polsky Art Authentication, which specializes in Basquiat paintings, told<em>\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0that he is surprised New York Art Forensics tried to appraise\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>. \u201cHow can someone appraise something if they don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s genuine or not? I don\u2019t get it, it\u2019s like the cart before the horse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Polsky said that his company and the nonprofit International Foundation for Art Research are the only ones in the US qualified to authenticate Basquiats. He added that there are many companies claiming to do art authentication without the expertise, and many pitfalls to be avoided with forgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">\u201cIf I see a situation [as an authenticator], like money laundering, and know it\u2019s illegal, you gotta say no,\u201d he said. \u201cYou gotta think about the bigger picture, and the bigger picture is that your reputation is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \"><strong>Promotional Materials That \u2018Misrepresented the Facts\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Piwowarczyk said Eminence Rise Media deleted the press releases promoting\u00a0<em>200 Yen\u00a0<\/em>after New York Art Forensics complained about how they \u201cmisrepresented the facts.\u201d But\u00a0a website for the painting\u00a0remains online. In a\u00a0cached version of the website\u00a0from April, it states that Piwowarczyk and his colleague Taylor, \u201cshed light on the profound themes embedded in\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>.\u201d The same sentence was included in an Eminence Rise Media Press release published in December, which also mentioned \u201can upcoming bid by top museums in the United States to feature [<em>200 Yen<\/em>] in their prestigious displays.\u201d That sentence has since been removed from the website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Despite the PR firm promoting Co2Bit\u2019s Malevich painting, Co2Bit chairman\u00a0Ronald Wilkins\u00a0told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0he had \u201cno idea\u201d what Eminence Rise Media was. Piwowarczyk told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0that, according to the supposed Co2Bit intermediary, Eminence Rise Media was hired to write the press releases for the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">One of Eminence Rise Media\u2019s press releases stated that\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>\u00a0was sold on the LiveAuctioneers website on April 21, 2020. A search on the auction website revealed that the artwork was sold by Bill Hood and Sons Art and Antiques Auctions in Delray Beach, Florida, for $3,300. In its listing, the painting was not attributed to a specific artist, but its description reads \u201cJean-Michel Basquiat oil stick canvas Abstract Painting,\u201d adding \u201cMahala Estate Oxford Pa. Said to have been a driver for Andy Warhol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Chris Hood, a cofounder of Bill Hood and Sons, told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0that he \u201cforgot\u201d to attribute the painting before it was sold. Hood said a man brought the painting in and \u201cgave a story about the guy he got it from. He somehow hooked up with this guy who said his dad was a courier or driver in New York years back, and that\u2019s how he acquired it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Hood added he didn\u2019t think it was a real Basquiat painting but set the estimate at $2,000 to $3,000 and said he would \u201clet the world decide\u201d how much it was worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">He claimed that a woman he\u2019d never heard of\u2014\u201csome kind of decorator,\u201d Hood said\u2014purchased the painting on behalf of a man named Danny and spent up to $20,000 on several items from the auction house. Hood added that he didn\u2019t have the woman\u2019s name in his records and that she shipped the items to California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Meanwhile, the identity of the intermediary is still unclear, as is his relationship to Co2Bit. Piwowarczyk said the intermediary\u2019s relationship to Co2Bit only came up when he asked for the company\u2019s name to be included in the final report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Wilkins, the chairman of Co2Bit, told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0via WhatsApp that he knew nothing about\u00a0<em>200 Yen<\/em>. \u201cWith all of Co2Bit\u2019s investors\/token-holders, I have no way of knowing who says their intent is to use the proceeds of their art sale to support our philanthropic efforts,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Meanwhile, Piwowarczyk said he had never heard of Wilkins before. \u201cI really don\u2019t want to be associated with this,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is something that is going to kill us\u2026 go easy on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1a https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated\u00a0Jean-Michel Basquiat\u00a0painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution\u2019s permission. 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