2023-08-25 16:36:58
Bill Pallot, art expert and skull collector, at his Parisian home, December 11, 2013. Lucien Lung for Le Figaro
THE TRUE STORY OF ART FORGERS (6/6) – For fun or greed, this erudite dandy known to all of Paris challenged the royal estate, which acquired fakes. Story of a case that should finally lead to a trial in 2025.
Paintings by Van Gogh or Chagall, 18th century armchairs, antique bas-reliefs… They copied, with an art that deceived the most attentive experts, the masterpieces of great creators. Portraits of some of the famous forgers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
What has become of the once undisputed expert in 18th century seats through which the resounding scandal of the fakes of Versailles arrived? Seven years have passed. Time to forget? Not for those who believe that this affair, having cast doubt on one of our most famous institutions (read below), ended up sinking this market already shrouded in suspicion. Not either for Bill Pallot who is waiting, head held high, for his trial announced for 2025, in Pontoise, in Val-d’Oise. “The slowness of justice has postponed the date. I was unlucky because the judges followed one another, each time starting the case from scratch,” explains Bill Pallot. For the examining magistrate, overwhelmed by other more burning subjects, it was obviously…
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