All week long, Ottawa crowds poured into the National Gallery of Canada, and the gist of what they demanded was: take me to your fakes. The show of paintings from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. had proved unpredictably popular, but for all the wrong reasons. Between 60 and 70 of the 187 paintings in the exhibition were under critical indictment as phonya scandal so big as to strike at the confidence that the art market is founded on.
Collector Chrysler had put on this same exhibition last summer in his own museum, a converted Methodist church in Provincetown, Mass....
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