class="p1">We were of course vary upset to learn that you have found more fakes of your works in the Norton Dodge Collection. We understand that these works are far below your high artistic level and may damage your reputation, I would like to assure you that these works, which you indicated as fakes, will be never shown again in any of our exhibitions or published in the museum’s publications. Moreover, I would like to inform you that immediately after we received your letter, the fake work was taken down from the exhibition. These works legally belong to Norton Dodge and we informed him of the situation about these fakes. Norton will be calling you in the nearest future.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
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Alia Rosenfeld
Curator of Russian Art
GALERIE
INGE BAECKER
ZEUGK
ZEUGHAUSSTRASSE 13
D 50667 KOLN
Koln, den 07.06.1996
Dear Sirs,
we are kindly asking to publish the following information:
At least seven artworks attributed to the Russian artist lvan Chujkov, being part in several great american art collections, proved to be fakes.
In the name of the artist I want to warn: evidently there must be a source for these fakes in Russia. These fakes are either sold directly to America or via a dealer in Canada.
Ivan Chujkov is kindly asking to contact him personally or his galerist Inge Baecker, if there is any doubt about originality of the offered artwork. (Ivan Chujkov. Phone: 0049–221-5101340 / Galerie Inge Baecker Cologne. Phone 0049–221-2570401)
To give a frame of understanding: an artwork with the size of 180 cm × 130 cm, offered under a price of 40.000 DM or 26.000 $ is – with some probability – a fake.
By now nearly all artworks which are offered a: such dumping prices proved to be forgeries.
With kindly regards
GALERIE INGE BAECKER
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Inge Baecker
IVAN CHUJKOV
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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248
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Уважаемый Иван!
Я здесь приложу цветные ксероксы сомнительных произведений в нашем собрании. Пожалуйста, укажите на ксероксе, если фальшак, и пришлите обратно к музею.
Таким образом, у нас остается документация/доказательство, что вы увидели и сами указали, что они не ваши работы.
Спасибо огромное и до
скорого свидания
Дорогая Джейн!
Я в некотором изумлении!
Я уже сообщал в Zimmer Museum обо всех подделках, в том числе и тех, что Вы мне прислали. Т. е. № 04881 – это очень плохая копия из каталога моей выставки в Munstere. № 04143 тоже фальшак. Однако, кроме этих 2-х, № 04144 тоже подделка, а также № 01617. У меня есть подобная работа с зеркалом, но это не она. Между тем одна моя работа находится в New York’е у Л. Сокова. Я был бы рад, если бы музей заинтересовался этой работой.
Oct 17, 2008, at 7:02 PM
Neil K. Rector wrote:
Dear Mr. Chuykov:
Thank you for speaking with me today. I am very disappointed with the news, of course, but the most important thing is to get the painting’s attribution correct.
Attached is the image of the diptych that I mentioned over the phone.
I look forward (I think!) to hearing from you about it.
Thank you,
Neil Rector
From: Ivan Chuykov
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 2:05 PM
To: Neil K. Rector
Subject: Re: Diptych
Dear Mr. Rector,
Sorry, this one is also a fake, though I have to say it is painted a little better. The left part is exactly the same fragment from the poster by Klutsis, which I have used in the painting I’ve told you about. And in the right panel a painting by Rubens was repainted in black & white with just a small part in color – the method I have used in my big «Grisaile». So, the person who faked it was in quite a good knowledge of my works. And it’s no wonder that Kabakov and Groys have not doubted it, though I think they could be more attentive to the texture of painting itself, which in my case is rather more free and more colorful.
Well, I am really sorry to disappoint you but it is a fake.
Still it was a great pleasure to meet a person who is interested and collected it.
Best regards
Ivan Chuikov
From: Neil K. Rector
Subject: RE: Diptych
October 17, 2008 8:26:58 PM GMT+02:00
To: Ivan Chuykov
Dear Mr. Chuikov,
Thank you for your reply. I am very disappointed to get this news, of course. But, as I said, getting the history correct is the most important thing.
As I told you in Berlin, I have loved your work for years. I thought I had two interesting examples of paintings, but, alas, I don’t. So the only thing I have of yours now is a set of 4 photographs from 1977, «Mirror II» that I bought from Marina Sandmann. Please don’t tell me that those are fake, too!
Take care,
Neil
P. S. I have helped organize an exhibition of Oleg Vassiliev’s paintings at the Faggionato Gallery in London (www.faggionato.com), which will open on Tuesday, November 25, during «Russian week» in London. Will you be in London that week by any chance? If so, perhaps you could attend the opening and we could meet again in person.
Постскриптум
Иван Чуйков обратился ко мне с предложением поучаствовать в создании его книги в начале весны 2016 года. Для меня это предложение было большой неожиданностью и большой честью, так как творчество художника Ивана Чуйкова является, на мой взгляд, основополагающим для определения места и значения русского изобразительного искусства в европейском художественном контексте.
За работу я взялась с большим удовольствием и даже с неким трепетом.
Иван передал мне множество текстов как из своей переписки и интервью разных лет, так и из личных размышлений о проблематике изобразительности
