F for Forgery or False Advertising?

by Bill Davenport February 29, 2008

Glasstire’s Titus O’Brien isn’t the only one wrangling with sleazy art merchants. Lorena Fernandez, an artist who blogs about the Houston art scene on the Houston Chronicle’s website reports an amazingly bald-faced ripoff. It seems  an internet artist calling himself Martin Azari was selling a painting on ebay, using a photograph of one Fernandez’s paintings as the illustration! Read her post about it, and the letter-writing campaign that fixed it here .

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