“Caveat Emptor” should be your slogan when it comes to buying artworks by contemporary artists on the “secondary market,” or so a recent legal filing reminds us. New York collector
Joseph Goldsmith is suing dealers
Robert Durant and
Lee Charlton Scott for selling him $950,000 worth of artworks by
Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Keith Haring and
Andy Warhol, which he now believes are fakes.
