Charlie, first post, yes that was when I had my gallery a few blocks over from where I am now. It was some fun, but too much work and very expensive. I got tired of it & closed at the end of 2005
the art, yes that article is when I was sold a bunch of art stolen from the now-defunct Museum of Comic Art that used to be in Rye, New York. However the article leaves out lots of salient facts, like my Madison ave attorney was asked by the attorney for Sherman Krisher to retrieve the art so no one got financially cheated. It also doesn't mention that I offered to return to the museum a number of pieces, but the museum wasn't having any of that and wanted Sherman's attorney to handle it and most certainly iot doesn't mention that their reasons were that they wanted a patsy to take the blame as Sherman Krisher was the son of the best friend of the museum's founder, cartoonist Mort Walker, and that Sherman had started working there 7 years earlier as the janitor and worked his way up to assistant director of the museum, which is what gave him access to the vaults so he could steal art to give his girlfriend a good time. It also doesn't mention that after a full investigation had been done, it was discovered that he had been stealing from the vault for some 18 months before an outside historian discovered the theft and that the 2 dealers who had brought me art at 2 different times (meaning, they were not together) and were up until that time known as very reputable dealers (one later went to jail for baseball card forgery, theft and fraud) and one of those dealers as well as myself & 3 other people who were also downstream all called the museum as the backs of some were stamped and we asked if this material had been sold via the museum art sale side or if they had been stolen. Museum Director whose name I forget asked the assistant museum director to go "check the vault". in other words, they sent the fox into the henhouse to count the chickens.. each and every time!
naturally the reports all came back that the material was legal to won.. and we wound up buying more!!
The museum was never held accountable of course and I lost over $40,000. I did later get a large settlement from one party involved in this whole fiasco, but due to contractual obligations I am unable to name what entity made the settlement with me.
The thief served 6 months probation and made about $1400 in restitution payments to the museum.
that's life.. move on
how much stolen art is there in the population? I would say an unimaginable amount
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the art, yes that article is when I was sold a bunch of art stolen from the now-defunct Museum of Comic Art that used to be in Rye, New York. However the article leaves out lots of salient facts, like my Madison ave attorney was asked by the attorney for Sherman Krisher to retrieve the art so no one got financially cheated. It also doesn't mention that I offered to return to the museum a number of pieces, but the museum wasn't having any of that and wanted Sherman's attorney to handle it and most certainly iot doesn't mention that their reasons were that they wanted a patsy to take the blame as Sherman Krisher was the son of the best friend of the museum's founder, cartoonist Mort Walker, and that Sherman had started working there 7 years earlier as the janitor and worked his way up to assistant director of the museum, which is what gave him access to the vaults so he could steal art to give his girlfriend a good time. It also doesn't mention that after a full investigation had been done, it was discovered that he had been stealing from the vault for some 18 months before an outside historian discovered the theft and that the 2 dealers who had brought me art at 2 different times (meaning, they were not together) and were up until that time known as very reputable dealers (one later went to jail for baseball card forgery, theft and fraud) and one of those dealers as well as myself & 3 other people who were also downstream all called the museum as the backs of some were stamped and we asked if this material had been sold via the museum art sale side or if they had been stolen. Museum Director whose name I forget asked the assistant museum director to go "check the vault". in other words, they sent the fox into the henhouse to count the chickens.. each and every time!
naturally the reports all came back that the material was legal to won.. and we wound up buying more!!
The museum was never held accountable of course and I lost over $40,000.
I did later get a large settlement from one party involved in this whole fiasco, but due to contractual obligations I am unable to name what entity made the settlement with me.
The thief served 6 months probation and made about $1400 in restitution payments to the museum.
that's life.. move on
how much stolen art is there in the population? I would say an unimaginable amount
the art that was stolen from me that is still shown on my website here was never recovered, but at least I was paid by insurance..
http://www.comic-art.com/stolen_art/stolenart.htm
and yeah, that Raymond piece is nice.
I've had thousands of great pieces of art
can you idiots spell my name correctly???
Pronounced Ha-leg-wa