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"The beauty of art may be in the eye of the beholder, but the behavior we allege today is objectively ugly.

Christian Rosa, art darling of the Hip, has been indicted for the forgery and sale of Raymond Pettibons Wave series.

According to the US District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rosa stole at least four unfinished works from Pettibons studio, worked them to completion, then sold the forgeries complete with Certificates of Authenticity through a middleman dealer.

Regarding the case, FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said, The beauty of art may be in the eye of the beholder, but the behavior we allege today is objectively ugly.

A whip-sting of truth from the feds.

Rosa, 43, (real name the less charming Christian Weinberger), was schooled in Vienna and bedazzled his way through the LA and NY art scenes with his paintings, zombie formalist in style. (Roll eyes here.) Both Jay-Z and Leo DiCaprio own his works.

Until last year, Rosa typically fetched over a hundred grand, but recently the value for an original fizzled down to thirty, tops. Rosa maybe thought forging the wave paintings would be easy money to maintain the lifestyle he had grown accustomed to.

Everyone loves surfboarding.

The forgeries were sold for over six figures each.

Enough for a down payment on a wide Riverside spread.

Pettibon, who was originally brought to fame in the 80s through his cover art for the punk band Black Flag, was a friend and mentor to Rosa, painting each others portraits, sharing gallery space, and gambling at dog races.

His wave paintings, begun in 1985, typically sell for about 1.2 mil. They are noted for their simplicity, making the familiar strange, as they say.

While Pettibons works are noted for their simplicity, which are hardly more than elaborated school notebook daydream doodles, the style make a Pettibon wave easy to recognize.

New York-based art collector Michael Hort, who owns both Pettibon and Rosa works, says its not surprising that Pettibons wave paintings were forged.

Pettibon is easy to knock off. Theyre easy to replicate. They are not that complicated, though you keep going back and finding new things to look at.

Experts certainly did find things to look at. It wasnt long before examiners sniffed out irregularities in the pieces. Artnet described the forged paintings as having seemingly strange yellow-greens blended into Pettibons normal cobalt blues misplacement of text, and a too-careful signature.

Basically, Rosa was sloppy, the criminals mortal sin.

According to the official indictment:

From approximately 2017 through 2020, WEINBERGER, together with others known and unknown, engaged in a scheme to defraud potential art buyers by selling forged Pettibon paintings. Pettibon is a prominent contemporary artist based primarily in New York, New York, who has produced a series of paintings depicting ocean waves with surfers accompanied by handwritten text (the Wave Series). WEINBERGER is a contemporary visual artist based primarily in Los Angeles, California and Vienna, Austria. As part of the scheme to defraud, in or about 2018 and 2020, WEINBERGER sold the following artworks, which WEINBERGER falsely represented to be authentic Pettibon Wave Series paintings, to two buyers (Buyer-1 and Buyer-2):

Untitled (It was the Moment . . . ), 2013, 100 cm by 155 cm:

Untitled (Drop in . . .), 2011, 80 cm by 60 cm:

Untitled (Bail, or bail out . . .), 2012, 115 cm by 163 cm:

Untitled (If there is a line . . .), 2016, 118.1 by 208.3 cm:

Rosa fled to Portugal in February but has now been dragged back to the states to await trial.

He could face up to 20 years in the bullpen if convicted.

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