Oops! A New Documentary About the Knoedler Fakes Scandal Accidentally Included an Artist’s Trick Image as Real

Brian Boucher, Artnet News, March 5, 2021

About 15 minutes in, we see black-and-white photos of Motherwell and Rothko surrounded by their work, illustrating a point by Harvard University Art Museums conservator Marjorie Cohn, who says, "I mean, you would have thought that at least one of those pictures might have appeared as a background shot showing one of the artists in his studio."

 

Then comes a color image of Pollock in his studio. Only it's not an image of the artist's studio. It's an image of a small sculpture of Pollock in his studio, created by Fig.