While all this is going on, Cohen is buying prized real estate in the Hamptons and scooping up Picassos.
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He told the lawyer not only about the bogus restoration work, but also about the phony Picassos and Rembrandts.
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Here Susan Adams tells the saga of a family coining money by buying Picassos and Modiglianis and selling them a while later.
The collection "distinguished by its quality, focus, and depth, " includes 33 Picassos, 17 works by Braque and 14 by Gris and Leger.
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She puts appraisers together with ordinary folks who bring their "Picassos" and Tiffany teapots to the show to be auctioned off live.
The Nahmads (who say they bought more than 200 Picassos from Kahnweiler's gallery) operate as secondary-market merchants rather than supporters of the arts.
Financial blogger and investment adviser Barry Ritholtz singles out a few more goods that are going cheap: boats, jewelry, Picassos and Monets, second homes.
Called Enhancing Observational Skills, the program asks students to look at and then describe paintings not Pollocks and Picassos but Victorian pieces, with whole people in them.
The number of Picassos on show, while significant in its own right, is especially so because it comes at a key time in Hong Kong's cultural development.
At the time that story was published, Rosenberg owned at least 89 works worthy of a gallery show, including 43 Picassos and paintings by Degas, Seurat and Renoir.
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His shares in Syntex, which prospered in the 1960s and 1970s, bankrolled a personal gallery which once included at least eight Picassos, half a dozen Giacomettis and three Degas.
This month, Rosewood San Miguel de Allende in Mexico launched a "Little Picassos" program that has children study the work of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso and then create their own pictures.
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