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The adult children of artist Frank Frazetta have resolved a dispute over control of their elderly father's body of work, the Associated Press has reported.

The dispute apparently involved Frazetta's son, Frank Frazetta Jr., using a backhoe to break into the artist's museum in the Poconos. Police say he tried to remove 90 paintings insured for $20 million. The AP reports that Frazetta Jr. insisted he was attempting to safeguard the art from his scheming siblings.

More can be found here:

http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/04/23/frazetta-siblings-resolve-dispute-over-fantasy-art/

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According to the Washington Post, a West Hollywood art and antiques dealer who allegedly sold a fake Picasso for $2 million has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges. 

The dealer, a 70 year old woman named Tatiana Khan, apparently admitted that she paid an artist $1,000 to duplicate a 1902 Picasso called "The Woman in the Blue Hat," then sold it as an original for $2 million.

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On Monday, Lucia Eames, the daughter of the famous designer Charles Eames, perhaps best known for his classic design of plywood and fiberglass chairs, filed a lawsuit in an Illinois circuit court alleging that the family owns material which was planned to be put up on the auction block at the Wright Auction House in Chicago.

More about the lawsuit can be found here:

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/lawsuit-filed-over-eames-archives/

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Artworks from Manhattan's Berry Hill Galleries were seized after Berry Hill allegedly defaulted on a $9.5 million debt.  However, James Berry Hill,. the owner of the gallery, does not agree that the works were being "seized" but stated that they were simply being sent to a warehouse.

On March 30, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon had granted an application for an order of seizure, finding that Berry-Hill owed the bank $9.5 million. The Court found that the gallery "secretly sold 223 works of art" and failed to pay sale proceeds to American Capital or hold them aside for the bank.

More information cane be found in this Wall Street Journal article:

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303411604575168363797545760.html

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