Giulano Ruffini

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Giulano Ruffini (* 1944 or 1945 ) is a French playboy , restorer , art collector and dealer .

Life

Ruffini worked as a painter in his youth. He collects art and has been in the art trade since the 1990s. Ruffini also deals with art counterfeiting and advised the author Jules-François Ferrillon on his novel Faussaire , which appeared in May 2015. He supplies middlemen at his art dealer.

Art forgeries

Frans Hals - portrait of a man with a tassel collar

A painting by Giulano Ruffini attributed to Frans Hals was identified as a modern forgery in 2016.

In 2011 Ruffini launched a painting attributed to Frans Hals . At the time, it was found to be genuine by experts from the auction house Sotheby’s and was sold to collector Richard Hedreen for 9.5 million euros. In 2016, Sotheby's recognized the painting as an art counterfeit after an investigation by the US materials research company Orion Analytical and subsequently reimbursed the collector for the purchase price.

Ruffini was quoted in a 2016 report in the Financial Times as saying that he himself never claimed that the pictures he traded were pictures of old masters, that he was just a collector, not an expert. Rather, the attributions were made by the middlemen, auction houses and galleries. Mark Weiss and Konrad Bernheimer were named as intermediaries .

Parmigianinos circle - vision of St. Jerome

The painting Vision of St. Jerome (1527) from the Parmigianino area was auctioned in 2012 by the auction house Sotheby’s for USD 842,500. After the auction, the picture was temporarily on loan at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. An investigation by art forensic scientist James Martin of Orion Analytical showed that the painting had the color pigment phthalocyanine green , which did not come onto the market until 1938, in 21 different areas not affected by previous restorations .

Other works suspected of being counterfeit

According to the auction house Sotheby's, Ruffini has brought more paintings by old masters onto the market, which have been attributed to artists such as van Dyck, Velázquez, Coorte, Bronzino and Corregio. In total, there are 25 works that have since been exhibited in large museums. Among these paintings are:

literature

  • Gina Thomas: A saint, a portrait, a Venus and a David. This is a real art thriller: four paintings from the same source are suspected to be forgeries. Report, in: FAZ , January 21, 2017, p. 17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tomasz Kurianowicz: False trust. Perhaps the greatest art scandal of the century: Museum paintings by Old Masters could be forged. In: Die Welt , October 22, 2016, p. 28.
  2. ^ Béatrice De Rochebouet: Les experts sont souvent juge et partie. In: Le Figaro , 4th July 2016.
  3. ↑ Jules-François Ferrillon in atlantico
  4. ↑ Jules-François Ferrillon: Faussaire. Âge d'homme, Paris 2015.
  5. ^ Will Gompertz : Sotheby's declares 'Frans Hals' work a forgery. At BBC , October 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Orion Analytical , website
  7. ↑ on Mark Weiss see weissgallery , website
  8. ↑ Gina Thomas: A saint, a portrait, a Venus and a David. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 28, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2017 .
  9. ^ Thomas Pignot: Le Cranach du prince de Liechtenstein, vrai ou faux? In: L'Express , March 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ruffini, Giulano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art collector and dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944 or 1945