The Terrace Painting That Didn't Belong: Inside a Billion-Dollar Swap
The Terrace Painting That Didn't Belong: Inside a Billion-Dollar Swap
A four-foot-by-five-foot oil once appraised at $1.4 million was found leaning against a terrace railing 430 feet above Delancey Street - and eight of nine works in a penthouse were later revealed to be fakes. How did a trusted collections coordinator, a repeat art-handler, and a banquet worker pull off a swap that left a flagship installation insured and catalogued yet almost entirely replaced?
In this episode, we tell how the Meridian Tower penthouse collection was curated, documented, and then quietly altered over weeks…
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