Knoedler asked forensic conservator to revise ‘negative’ report

The Knoedler gallery asked the forensic conservator James Martin of Orion Analytical to alter his report on two works purportedly by Robert Motherwell before a meeting with the Dedalus Foundation to discuss their authenticity, Martin testified on Thursday in a New York court. Knoedler had commissioned Martin to analyse the paintings after Dedalus, which maintains the Motherwell catalogue raisonné, told then-director Ann Freedman the paintings the gallery was handling were fake.
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