Biggest art fraud in history in Canada; artists pay; the Ugly Duchess by Massys (and Leonardo)
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This week: the extraordinary story behind what Canadian police have called \\u201cthe biggest art fraud in history\\u201d. More than 1,000 fake works purporting to be by the First Nations artist Norval Morrisseau are seized and eight people have been charged. The Art Newspaper\\u2019s Editor, Americas, Ben Sutton, tells the extraordinary story, involving a rock star, a television documentary and alleged forgery rings, and what it tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada.
A report into artists\\u2019 pay in the UK has exposed the inordinately low sums paid to artists for their labour by arts organisations. We talk to the art collective Industria, who wrote the report, and Julie Lomax, the CEO of a-n, The Artists\\u2019 Information Company, which has published the study.
And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is An Old Woman (around 1513) by the Northern Renaissance artist Quinten Massys, a painting better known as The Ugly Duchess. A new exhibition at the National Gallery focuses on this work in its collection, exploring its origins in a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, and the combination of satire, folklore, humanism and misogyny from which it emerged. Emma Capron, the curator of the show, tells us more.
A PDF of Industria\\u2019s Structurally F\\u2013cked report can be found at a-n.co.uk.
Industria\\u2019s website is we-industria.org.The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance, National Gallery, London, until 11 June.
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