
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ely Sakhai

Related Topics

Art forgery

David Stein

Eric Hebborn

Ferdinand Legros

William Blundell

Art gallery

Elmyr de Hory

John Myatt

Han van Meegeren

Guy Hain

John Drewe

Tom Keating

Alceo Dossena

March 2000

Larry Silverstein

In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Ely Sakhai - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ely Sakhai (born 1952) is a US art dealer and suspected purveyor of forged art.
		Ely Sakhai emigrated from Iran to USA 1965.
		On March 9, 2000, the FBI arrested Sakhai at his gallery on Broadway and charged him with eight counts of wire and mail fraud.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ely_Sakhai (528 words)

	Press Release - Department of Justice - U.S. Charges NYC Gallery Owner in Multimillion-Dollar Global Scheme to Sell ...
		According to the Complaint, the painting SAKHAI sold to Purchaser-1 was revealed to be a forgery after it was consigned to a gallery in Zurich, Switzerland, which arranged for experts to examine the painting.
		SAKHAI allegedly represented the paintings to be authentic, but the Complaint charges they are forgeries based on, among other things, SAKHAI's subsequent sale of the "same" paintings after purportedly selling them to Purchaser-2.
		SAKHAI succeeded in later selling the authentic painting, under the slightly altered title "Jeune Fille a la Guitare" at auction by Sotheby's in Manhattan, without disclosing that he was responsible for the forgery discovered at Christie's.
	www.fbi.gov /dojpressrel/pressrel04/art031004.htm (1308 words)

	Guardian \| Forged Gauguin exposes artful dodger
		Art dealer Ely Sakhai, owner of a respectable New York gallery, purchased paintings at auction, concentrating on the impressionists and post-impressionists.
		Sakhai, who will be sentenced in July along with his office manager, could have faced up to 20 years in prison.
		Sakhai is thought to have perpetrated the fraud with 25 paintings.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5085839-110878,00.html (387 words)

	FBI says the oils may not be oils - Business - www.theage.com.au
		Sakhai, 52, was arrested in New York in March, and charged with a 15-year art scam.
		Sakhai is also president and director of Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties, a company that has also taken up an interest in the exploration permit.
		Sakhai was born in Iran in 1952 and emigrated to the US in 1962.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/30/1101577485488.html (959 words)

	Gallery Owner Charged : Maine Antique Digest, May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ely Sakhai, owner of The Art Collection, Inc. and Exclusive Art, art galleries in lower Manhattan, was arrested on March 9 on charges of mail and wire fraud stemming from his involvement in an international art forgery scheme, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
		It's alleged that Sakhai would buy authentic paintings at auction, acquire forgeries of those paintings, and then sell the forgeries, falsely and deliberately misleading buyers into believing that the forgeries were authentic.
		According to court papers, the painting Sakhai sold to the Tokyo dealer was revealed to be a forgery after it was consigned to a gallery in Zurich, Switzerland, which arranged for experts to examine the painting.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/may04/ely0504.htm (990 words)

	Manhattan Art Gallery Owner Sentenced to 41 Months: Maine Antique Digest, August 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ely Sakhai, owner of a Manhattan art gallery known as Exclusive Art, was sentenced on July 5 to a 41-month term of incarceration as a result of his conviction on federal mail fraud charges for an international art forgery scheme that spanned approximately 20 years.
		In addition to the jail term, Sakhai was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $12.5 million to victims of the offenses and to forfeit 11 paintings, believed to be authentic works that Sakhai forged copies of during the scheme.
		The forgery, which Sakhai sold in 1997 to an individual in Tokyo, Japan, was consigned by a subsequent purchaser to Christie’s for its May 2000 auction, while the authentic painting, which Sakhai kept, was consigned by Sakhai to Sotheby’s for its May 2000 auction.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/aug05/sakhai0805.htm (610 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| US dealer charged over 'fake' art
		Prosecutors said Ely Sakhai, 52, bought authentic works by masters including Monet and Renoir, had forgeries made, then sold the copies and the originals.
		Sakhai was named in an eight-count fraud complaint at a Manhattan federal court - each charge carries a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and a fine of $2m (£1.1m).
		Sakhai bought the original at Sotheby's in 1988 for about $35,000 (£19,400) say prosecutors.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/arts/3502738.stm (234 words)

	bookofjoe: Sorry - wrong Gauguin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ely Sakhai, the owner of a Lower Manhattan gallery, Exclusive Art, pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan to fraud charges in the forgery operation.
		Sakhai agreed to pay $12.5 million to collectors who bought the forgeries, and to forfeit to the government 11 paintings, including 4 Chagalls, that have been determined to be real.
		Sakhai, 52, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 5.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2004/12/sorry_wrong_gau.html (642 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Art dealer who forged ahead with scam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ely Sakhai, based in New York, is accused of buying masterpieces by artists including Monet, Renoir and Paul Gauguin, before selling copies.
		Sakhai’s alleged scam came to light when a collector bought a work by expressionist Paul Klee.
		Sakhai was arrested in Manhattan earlier this week and charged with eight counts of fraud.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=285722004 (832 words)

	Two charged in $7 million fake-art scheme - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		Ely Sakhai, identified in court papers as the owner of the Exclusive Art gallery, and Houshi Sandjaby, identified as its manager, were indicted on conspiracy charges.
		Sakhai also was charged with mail fraud and wire fraud.
		Sakhai kept the authentic painting and signed it over to Sotheby’s house for its auction the same month, according to court papers.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5219352 (450 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Two versions of Gauguin work on sale at same time
		Ely Sakhai has been charged in America with eight counts of fraud relating to the alleged sale of 25 forged works by artists that included Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Claude Monet and Paul Klee.
		It is now alleged that Sakhai bought the genuine Gauguin some years before and had a copy made which he then sold using the certification papers from the original painting to verify it.
		"Sakhai has for years engaged in a scheme to defraud the international art market through the sale of forged works of art," said James Wynne, an FBI agent, yesterday.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/12/nart12.xml (401 words)

	News & Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sotheby’s sold the original painting obtained from gallery owner Ely Sakhai.
		From that moment on, the authorities began investigating Sakhai, and a few weeks ago he was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigations —FBI- of leading various frauds on works worth millions of dollars.
		Sakhai acquired the original works in public auctions, and that he later obtained the forgery to make a quick sale.
	www.artnexus.com /NewsDetail/13342 (137 words)

	Guardian \| NY dealer accused of art scam
		The documents allege that the gallery's owner, Ely Sakhai, 52, bought the painting and had a copy made.
		Mr Sakhai's scheme came unstuck when two versions of the Gauguin came up for sale at the same time at Christie's and Sotheby's in 2000.
		Mr Sakhai bought Chagall's La Nappe Mauve at Christie's in London in 1990 for £173,000.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4878257-110878,00.html (388 words)

	Around the Nation \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The pleas to conspiracy charges came in a case involving the sale of $7 million in forged paintings that were so intricately detailed they were almost indistinguishable from the originals.
		Ely Sakhai, 52, owner of the Exclusive Art gallery in Manhattan, agreed to pay $12.5 million and to forfeit 11 paintings as part of a plea deal, according to court papers.
		He also agreed to be sentenced to a prison term of between three and four years.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/52459 (571 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - ACOR makes new gas field discovery
		ACOR, Ely Sakhai and RETCO have drilled fourteen wells to date following a major fracture trend along the south and west of the park and have ten more locations identified and being prepared for drilling.
		ACOR and Sakhai have engaged an engineering company to run a 3-day potential test on this well.
		The rig was moved four miles to the NNW along the fault line to the #1 Tarter location.
	www.gasandoil.com /GOC/discover/dix23488.htm (529 words)

	Forbes.com: Secrets Of The Art Forgers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In May 2000, Christie's and Sotheby's (nyse: BID - news - people)--neither of which will comment publicly on forgeries--couldn't help but acknowledge that a fake was afoot when both houses offered the exact same canvas by Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, "Vase de fleurs (lilas)," for sale in their catalogs.
		In March 2004, the FBI, compiling a case on Sakhai since 1999, arrested the dealer on charges that he bought Impressionist and early modern works by artists like Chagall and Renoir, commissioned and sold copies of them, and then a year or so later, sold the originals.
		That's because, as in Sakhai's case, copies can be easy to authenticate: Just find out if there's another one out there, especially if there is a published catalog raisonné.
	www.forbes.com /2004/12/17/cz_mr_1217soapbox2_print.html (1383 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		Ely Sakhai, 52, was named in an eight-count mail and wire fraud complaint in Manhattan Federal Court yesterday.
		He is alleged to have later acquired a forgery of the painting and used a certificate of authenticity to sell the work to a Tokyo art dealer in 1993.
		Sakhai later consigned the authentic renoir to Sotheby’s for its May 11, 2000, auction in New York where it was sold for about 65,000 dollars.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/04mar12/inter.htm (4514 words)

	Ely Sakhai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He become a minor art dealer who owned The Art Collection, Inc.
		They also informed the owners, Gallery Muse in Tokyo.
		FBI estimate of his profits are $3.5 million.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ely_Sakhai (512 words)

	[CPProt.net] Manhattan Art Gallery Owner Sentenced to 41 Months in FederalPrison for Multimillion-Dollar Art Forgery ...
		- SAKHAI purchased a painting by the French artist, Marie Laurencin, entitled "Jeune Fille a la Mandolin" at auction held by Christie's in Manhattan.
		Other transactions in SAKHAI's scheme to defraud charged in the Complaint include: - SAKHAI's sale of a forged Paul Gauguin painting entitled "Vase de Fleurs (Lilas)" to a Tokyo art collector ("Purchaser-4").
		- SAKHAI's sale of a forged painting by the artist Paul Klee entitled "Palaste." In February 2000, SAKHAI sold four works to a trust entity ("Purchaser-6"), including a Paul Klee painting entitled "Palaste.
	cpprot.te.verweg.com /2005-July/001375.html (1329 words)

	Masterminds - ONAIR - Courttv.com
		Starting in 1990, New York art dealer Ely Sakhai created an ingenious and audacious system of art forgeries in which replicas of paintings by such greats as Chagall, Renoir, Modigliani, Monet, and Rembrandt were unloaded on the unsuspecting Asian market.
		After making hundreds of thousands of dollars for each forged painting, he turned around and sold the original paintings to savvy art dealers in New York.
		Managing to keep his operation invisible for a staggering fourteen years, Sakhai made himself over 10 million dollars.
	www.courttv.com /onair/shows/masterminds/episodes/155.html (84 words)

	Authenticating Artwork: Buyer Beware - LegalZoom.com
		He bought well known artwork at public auction, commissioned forgeries of the works, including paintings by Chagall and Renoir, and sold the forgeries for millions, asserting their authenticity.
		Later, Sakhai returned to public auction and resold the original artwork.
		When a gallery in Zurich discovered the Chagall they were selling was a forgery, Sakhai was sentenced to almost three and a half years in prison and $12.5 million in restitution.
	www.legalzoom.com /articles/article_content/article13962.html (963 words)

	collision detection: "How to make a fake": My art-forgery story in today's New York magazine
		Sakhai, the FBI claims, would buy Impressionist paintings, make copies of them, then sell both the copy and the original.
		New York magazine just published a feature I wrote about Ely Sakhai, an art dealer who has been accused by the FBI with running an amazing forgery scheme.
		Sakhai might have learned a lesson from one of my favourite Doctor Who episodes,* 'City of Death,' in which a time-traveling alien criminal plots to sell forged copies of the Mona Lisa.
	www.collisiondetection.net /mt/archives/000846.html (670 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: World
		Ely Sakhai, 52, owner of the Exclusive Art gallery in Manhattan, agreed to pay Â£6.9m (â‚¬10m) and to forfeit 11 paintings as part of a plea deal, according to court papers.
		Sakhai and Sandjaby were accused of defrauding art buyers by selling them forgeries of paintings by master artists representing primarily the Impressionist, post-Impressionist and modern periods.
		Prosecutors said that in one case a fake painting and the original landed at competing auction houses for sale in the same month.
	www.breakingnews.ie /world/?jp=KFIDAUMHMHCW (356 words)

	Art of Double Dealing, the - Masterminds - History Television
		Starting in 1990, New York art dealer Ely Sakhai created an ingenious and audacious system to sell multiple forged copies of paintings by such greats as Chagall, Renoir, Modigliani, Monet, Rembrandt and others.
		After unloading his forgeries on the unsuspecting Asian market for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop, he then turned around and sold the original paintings to the savvy dealers in New York.
		Sakhai kept his operation invisible for a staggering fourteen years, and made himself over 10 million dollars in the process.
	www.history.ca /ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=87308 (281 words)

	Financial Crime News Aug 2005-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ely Sakhai, the owner of a Manhattan art gallery called Exclusive Art, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison and payment of $12.5 million of restitution over his leadership of a scheme to forge and sell copies of high-priced paintings through his gallery over a period of about twenty years.
		The sentence also calls for Sakhai to forfeit eleven paintings believed to be authentic works used in his forgery scheme.
		Houshi Sandjaby, the manager of the Exclusive Art Gallery and Sakhai's co-defendant in the federal case, was sentenced to three years of probation for his role in the scheme.
	home.att.net /~fcwriter/news62.htm (2854 words)

	The Left Coaster: Manufacturing Reality
		A variation of this was done by a “New York dealer named Ely Sakhai.” Forbes He bought the originals along with the provenance.
		These are con-games based on fixing the facts to fit the picture being sold.
		Sakhai’s crime is the one easily correct and did not do lasting damage to the art world.
	www.theleftcoaster.com /archives/005297.php (1384 words)

	Forgery, Fraud & Forensics profile: Old Masters, Fresh Paint?
		Euphrosyne Doxiades has controversially claimed that the UK National Gallery's Samson and Delilah (acquired for several million in 1990) is incorrectly attributed to Peter Paul Rubens and indeed may not be from his era.
		In May 2000 Sothebys and Christies embarrassingly realised that they were both offering the one and only Vase de Fleurs by Gauguin, with the FBI tracing the forgery to dealer Ely Sakhai (PDF).
		Sakhai had supposedly bought authenticated minor works by figures such as Chagall, Renoir, Gauguin, Monet and Klee.
	www.caslon.com.au /forgeryprofile5.htm (2697 words)

	Art Forgeries Are on the Rise, Testing Dealers, Detectives - August 25, 2006 - The New York Sun
		The origin of the increasing number of fakes is a mystery and leads to much speculation by many in the art world that everything from international conspiracies to greedy art teachers are in on the trade.
		Those who have been caught include convicted art dealer Ely Sakhai and amateur artists.
		One week an artist will be featured on the front page of Art News or Art + Auction, and soon after something fake will surface, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, said.
	www.nysun.com /article/38599 (577 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)