by Walter Robinson, artnet.com editor 

An imitation
Larmes
1930-33 

A long-running art forgery operation, which produced high-quality “vintage” Man Ray photographs, has been uncovered by the German photographer and collector Werner Bokelberg. The fakes include Man Ray’s most famous images from the 1920s and ’30s, including La Marquise Casati (1922), Noire et blanche (1926) and Larmes (1930-33). Bokelberg, who has assembled a large collection of 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and began collecting Man Ray in the 1970s, became suspicious at the increasing availability of such an unusually large selection of classic, and rare, Man Ray images. “It was too good to be true,” he told ArtNet. “I could have any picture I wanted.”

A fake of
Man Ray’s
La Marquise Casati
1922

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