When Los Angeles Art Dealer Martin Lowitz sends a cable to an obscure artist calling for "200 Braques, 15 by 22, soonest," he is ordering guaranteed, authentic, tried and (in a way) true pictures— painted by a skilled imitator's hand. No ordinary purveyor of paintings, Dealer Lowitz is busy answering the bothersome question raised by hotelkeepers and other custodians of public and private buildings: What to put on the walls? Lowitz' answer: "original" paintings. In providing that answer, genial, garrulous Martin Lowitz, 61, has become the founder and entrepreneur of the...
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