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David Phillips

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Fine Art Registry® is today's only high tech solution to the age old problems that have existed in the art world since before the Ancient Greeks: How to establish provenance, prove authenticity and ownership, prevent forgery and fakery, deter theft and, basically, make it possible to create, buy and sell works of art with the security of knowing that they are what they claim to be. Full information on FAR® and how the system of tagging and registering art is available at www.FineArtRegistry.com.

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21
NOV

WBALTV Investigates Complaint About Park West Gallery Art Purchases by Fine Art Registry Member

On 16 November 2009, WBALTV Baltimore aired an investigation into the purchase from Park West Gallery of a Salvador Dalí print for $12,000 by Fine Art Registry member Richard English aboard the Carnival Miracle in July 2006, which was later examined by Dalí experts and found to bear a forged signature and as such to have virtually no value.

29
AUG

Park West Gallery's Salvador Dali Expert, Bernard Ewell, Sued by Fine Art Registry for Defamation, Tortious Interference and Conspiracy with Park West

Fine Art Registry has sued Bernard Ewell, appraiser and self-styled Dalí expert, who has for years been paid by Park West Gallery, to state that the Dalí prints the gallery sells and the alleged Dali signatures many of them bear are genuine.

30
May

Park West Gallery Concealed Purchase of Eight Rembrandt Etching Copper Plates – New Articles Give Full History

Four articles about the Millennium Impressions, modern restrikes of eight of Rembrandt’s etchings, have been published on the FineArtAdvocacy website. The articles reveal the secret purchase of the eight plates in August 2003 by Park West Galleries, Michigan based art dealer selling art mainly on the cruise ships, and dispel false information spread by Park West to its auctioneers and its public.

21
FEB

Park West Gallery Stops Selling Dali Prints on all Cruise Ships, Reports Say

Park West Gallery recently ceased selling its large inventory of Salvador Dali prints when sale of these was apparently banned by Carnival Cruises aboard Carnival and Holland America ships, reports say. This follows a lawsuit by numerous dissatisfied Park West customers and a documentary video by Fine Art Registry on the subject of Park West's Dali prints.

14
FEB

Park West Gallery's Case Against Fine Art Registry Dismissed in Federal Court in Florida

Park West's defamation case against Fine Art Registry was dismissed by US District Judge Ursula Ungaro on 10 February 2009 (Case No. 08-21711-CIV-Ungaro), ''for failure to prosecute in the name of the real party in interest,'' thus ending Park West Gallery's boasts of a ''multi-state legal suit against Fine Art Registry' so frequently repeated in its press releases, paid internet ads.

25
JAN

Court Sets Aside Default Judgment Against Fine Art Registry® in Park West Galleries Michigan Suit

A default judgment obtained by negligence or worse by Park West Gallery attorneys, and claimed as a great legal victory by Park West customer services in the gallery's defamation case against Fine Art Registry, was set aside in the Eastern Michigan District Court in December.

06
JAN

New Documentary from Fine Art Registry Exposes Half Million Dollar Art Fraud

Fine Art Registry has released a documentary video in which internationally renowned experts on Salvador Dalí, and a research scientist examine a set of Dalí Divine Comedy prints sold by Park West Gallery for close to half a million dollars, and state their unanimous opinions that the prints bear forged Dalí signatures, in addition to a number of other anomalies found in the set of boxed prints.