Whiteley on Trial Publisher / Australian Galleries novelist and painter Betsy Berne

novelist and painter Betsy Berne

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Kevin Mortensen came to prominence in Australia and internationally as an early and highly regarded practitioner of performance art

It started with suspicions raised about artworks being produced in the style of Whiteley in a Melbourne art restorer's studio

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Whiteley on Trial Publisher / Australian Galleries novelist and painter Betsy BerneIt was a cause celebre: the biggest case of alleged art fraud to come before the Australian criminal justice system, a $4. 5 million sting drawing in one of the country's most gifted and ultimately tragic artists, Brett Whiteley, a heroin addict who died alone in 1992. It started with suspicions raised about artworks being produced in the style of Whiteley in a Melbourne art restorer's studio. Secret photographs were taken as the paintings took form.