Art Analysis & Research 2015:

Tripped Up by Titanium White

In 2002, the sale at a German auction house of a 1914 work, "Red Painting with Horses” by Heinrich Campendonk, set the record price for a work by this artist. Two years later, the actor Steve Martin bought another "Campendonk" dated to 1915 from a Parisian gallery. Many other buyers were tempted by these newly discovered "Campendonks" including the Sprengel Museum Hanover, which purchased "Cat in mountain landscape."

Because "Red Painting with Horses" was not listed in Campendonk's catalogue raisonne, its new owner began to research the work, eventually uncovering a forger whose career spanned decades, whose acc...