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Volume II, Issue 11
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Alleged Jackson Pollock Fingerprints: An Independent Expert's Review Now on Video on the FAR® Website
Video - Alleged Jackson Pollock Fingerprints: An Independent Expert's Review
Thomas Hanley, veteran fingerprint examiner with close to thirty years experience in fingerprint identification, has issued the final report of his findings regarding fingerprints used by Montreal art restorer, Peter Paul Biro, to "authenticate" an abstract expressionist painting which Biro claims was the work of Jackson Pollock. Tom Hanley's work has been reviewed and corroborated by another fingerprint expert with twenty seven years experience as an ID expert in the Suffolk County, New York, Police Department. Read the full report here and watch the video.

FAR® Retains Fingerprint Forgery Expert
Fine Art Registry has retained one of the world's foremost experts in fingerprint forgery and fabrication, Pat Wertheim, to examine the alleged Jackson Pollock fingerprints found by Paul Biro on the painting owned by the Parkers. Watch for the results of this investigation!

Artist, Ebrahim Amin Featured Artist, Ebrahim Amin
Southern California plein air master Ebrahim Amin effortlessly captures in paint the natural splendor he finds throughout California. Read our profile on Ebrahim here and view his Fine Art Registry gallery here.

Piece of the Month
Artist Miro Kenarov has imagined a colorful Venetian scene of gondolas bobbing on the water,
Artwork by Miro Kenarov against a rose-colored sky. #1 of a limited edition of 300 superior quality giclee prints produced by Gamut Control. See it in his FAR gallery here.
FAR ID Tag: 11199
Title: Venice Gondolas
Artist: Miro Kenarov
Dimensions: 30 x 40 in
Price: $695.00

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Read the unfortunately true, first-hand account of how a Park West at Sea art auction and auctioneer worked to fleece an unsuspecting doctor and his wife out of a very large sum of money...
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Art Auctions at Sea There Be Dragons: Art Auctions at Sea Are Uncharted Legal Waters
by Cindy Hill, for FAR
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Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?  |  by Joan Altabe
Conflicts are a natural state of affairs. But some loose-lipped conservators in Holland have abused the privilege. In the spring of 1986, unknown Dutch realist...
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