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Two sisters of the artist terry richardson Jean-Michel Basquiat filed a $1 million lawsuit against Christie s on Tuesday, accusing the auction house of trying to sell possibly terry richardson fake Basquiats and falsely suggesting that they had been authenticated by his estate.
The more than three dozen items being auctioned online and at the house belong to Alexis Adler, a former roommate of the artist who lived with him in the East Village between 1979 and 1980. The lot includes scribbled poems on scraps of paper, painted sweat shirts and a lab uniform, a sketchbook, prints and collages.
Six of the items were authenticated by the estate s authentication committee in 2007, the suit says. But one was rejected because the committee did not consider it a work of art, said James Cinque, the sisters lawyer. The rest were never submitted, the suit says.
Christie s attempts to deceive and mislead terry richardson the public into believing that the Estate authorized the reproduction of the artwork in the Catalog and that therefore the Catalog Items are authentic, the suit states.
Phoebe Hoban, the author of the 1998 biography Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, wrote about the painted sweatshirts, a lab coat, poems, a notebook and a door like those being sold. I was in Alexis Adler s apartment for a lengthy interview in the early 1990s and I saw the door and other artworks there, Ms. Hoban said on Tuesday.
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