The Secret Collector's Paintings

Over fifteen years an art dealer sold more than sixty paintings to two well-known galleries, saying they were unknown works by leading American abstract painters. She said they came from a secret foreign client who wished to stay anonymous, or from a collector who had owned them for years. The galleries paid her about $33 million and resold the works for more than $80 million. Prosecutors say a painter in a garage made every one of them, with false signatures and artificial ageing, on her instructions.