Updates

Since publication of The Great Dali Art Fraud & Other Deceptions in October 1992, law-enforcement authorities completed their effort at closing down a vast web of fraudulent operations of print sales. Specifically, these further developments have occurred, referenced here by parts of the book that are updated:

Chapter 7- The Great Emulator. Anthony Eugene Tetro reached a plea agreement with the Los Angeles district attorney's office and averted jail time for his forgery of works of Dali, Joan Miro, Hiro Yamagata, Marc Chagall and Norman Rockwell.

Chapter 8- "The Well Never Ran Dry." Donald Austin of Chicago's Austin Galleries was convicted of mail fraud and sentenced to prison.

Part 3- Showdown in the Pacific. Center Art Galleries owner William Mett and Marvin Wiseman completed their prison terms and then were convicted of embezzling $1.6 million from their employees' pension fund. They were sentenced to more prison time.

Chapter 21- A Family Affair. Two daughters and a granddaughter of the late Leon Amiel were sentenced to prison following their conviction in New York of mail fraud in the wholesaling of Dali, Chagall, Miro and Picasso fakes in the United States and Europe. The convictions culminated the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's Operation Bogart

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Dali archivist Albert Field.

Fake fake: Onetime Dali secretary Robert Descharnes holds a fake based on an image that itself is not by Dali, titled "Great Stallion of Port Lligat," to which the master inscribed "falso."