Phillips Auctioneers filed a lawsuit against a third-party guarantor who had agreed to buy the painting at a set price if it ...

The painting is stiff, clumsy, utterly lacking the feverish impasto and rhythmic brushwork that define the Dutch artist’s oeuvre. Worse still, it bore a signature: Elimar.

The image “ Portrait of a Young Woman in White,” by an anonymous artist (oil on canvas, 1798). The styling The painting and font both came from Moshfegh, according to Darren Haggar, the art ...