Investigation Reveals Stolen Dali Prints Sold By Park West Gallery are Forged

Insurance Claim Investigation Reveals Stolen Dali Prints Sold By Park West Gallery are FORGED and DEFACED

The following story is a warning to all prospective buyers and holders of Park West Gallery Dali inventory–and especially those Park West Gallery Dali prints that are purportedly signed by Dali and that source from the Albaretto family and other shady European sources from which Park West Gallery acquired its inventory. Recently, a theft of so-called signed Dali prints was reported.

After the insurance company conducted an investigation, it turned out that the Dali prints were found to be “forged” and “defaced.”

The owner of these worthless, defaced forgeries is now left holding the bag like so many other Park West Gallery victims. Many of these victims have insured these bogus pieces and are paying substantial premiums on worthless artwork.

Read the entire article at Fine Art Registry.

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On August 2, 2011 Property Casualty 306 published an article by Tom Kirkpatrick entitled Contents Claims Solved: The Case of the Fake Print.

Worthless Dalis sold on cruises report New York Post

Totally Sketchy - New York Post

On July 31, 2011 the New York Post published an article by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein entitled Totally ’sketchy’ - ‘Worthless’ Dalis sold on cruises.

Richard English Testifies Against Park West Gallery

Witness Intimidation, Lies, and the Cold Hard Truth for Park West Gallery and its Dali Inventory

Richard English and his wife, Tracey, are two more financial fatalities in a long and never ending line of Park West Gallery victims. Richard English testified at trial for Fine Art Registry. Though Richard English and other Fine Art Registry® witnesses were harassed and intimidated by Park West Gallery’s lawyers in an attempt to keep them from testifying at trial, the slime ball tactic didn’t work and it hasn’t worked from the beginning when Park West Gallery tried to keep our expert witnesses from testifying at deposition and at trial.

Richard English drove from Maryland to Port Huron, Michigan, in order to tell his appalling story of abuse and rip off by Park West Gallery. At the time, Mr. English was out of a job and desperate as many Americans are today to find work. It didn’t help that he was holding worthless, unauthorized, and forged Park West Gallery works of art that he could not sell. Before he learned he had been scammed by the self-proclaimed world’s largest art peddler on the planet, Richard hoped that he could sell the Park West artwork to help him make it through his tough financial times. After all, Park West Gallery and its fork-tongued salesmen represent that the artwork they sell is “investment” grade artwork; that it can be sold for many times its original purchase price and that Park West Gallery will buy the artwork back–all of which is a bald-faced lie. The bottom line: There is no secondary market for Park West Gallery artwork. And all the conjuring in the world won’t make it so.

Like hundreds of others, Richard English is still waiting to be refunded for the forged and fake artwork he purchased from Park West Gallery years ago. He is currently suing Park West Gallery. And while Richard English and others who are out of work wait for justice to prevail in the court system (which Park West Gallery expertly manipulates to its advantage with their numerous junk-yard dog lawyers around the country), the fat cat, Albert Scaglione, remains firmly ensconced in his lavish empire, resting in the lap of luxury while his lawyers keep the fee meter ramped.

Read the entire article and trial testimony at Fine Art Registry.

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