Jacques ZUCKER
1900–1981, Poland/USA

Mixed media, 63.5 x45, 5 cm, subjects with elderly man and two boys, signed "J. Zucker." The painting was sold for 10.965 SEK a small auction house in Stockholm in autumn 2010. The buyer returned in March 2011 to cancel the purchase, he claims that the painting authenticity been questioned when he tried to sell it at an auction house in Poland, neither painting or signature has been done by the famous Polish artist Jacques Zucker. At the police investigation reveals that the man who sold the painting in Sweden in 2010 as well, on several other occasions, submitted counterfeits of other Polish artists for sale see (Stanislaw Zoladz,Alfred Lenica,Tadeus Kantor).