27:. Fernandez and his wife, Monica Savignon, served prison sentences for their crimes, and as part of their sentencing, they agreed to never again create works in the style of another artist. However, Marin's sculptures created under his own name but many clearly referencing the work of other artists continue to be sold through galleries and auction houses in the US and Europe.
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In order to protect their identities, the couple operated under different aliases. As mentioned above, Manuel
Fernandez usually sold art under the pseudonym Manuel (Manny) Marin, but court records document that he also used the names Giuseppe Marin, Manuel Marcel, and Manuel Cisneros. Monica Savignon
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The court reported that they had sold over two million dollars of these forged artworks. Fernandez created the works while
Savignon acted as art dealer, consigning the works to auction houses and selling them to collectors. Most notably, Fernandez and Savignon sold more than $ 1.5 million
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Having moved home to Spain, Marin continued to create sculpture. In clear violation of his sentencing, Marin produced sculptures in the form of mobiles in a style reminiscent of
Alexander Calder, though under Marin's own name and using his own studio stamp. Despite their problematic nature, these
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Vitrano, another convicted art conman, testified at his April 2000 hearing that "Mr. Marin was probably the most prolific art counterfeiter in the New York City area in the '80s." Vitrano claimed that Marin's crimes went beyond those addressed in the aforementioned case. Vitrano said from
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In 2000, Manuel
Fernandez and Monica Savignon were convicted in federal court on fraud and conspiracy charges. Fernandez and Savignon were sentenced to the maximum prison time for their crimes, 33 months. The court also ordered that the couple pay $ 2,695,00 in restitution. In their sentencing,
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Their crime was far-reaching; they sold these forged artworks in the United States, Spain, England and France. The couple even convinced
Sotheby’s, the auction house, to sell a fake Calder work by providing false provenance history for the sculpture.
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Fernandez and Monica Savignon on fraud and conspiracy charges in 1997. At that time, the couple had been producing and selling forged artworks for over a decade.
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Marin "we bought a Du Bois, Thomas Hart Benton, a
William Aiken Walker, a Warhol, we bought a Lesieur. We bought a Hans Hoffman, which was the larger one. We bought a Tait. We bought a Henry Farney."
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Savignon agreed that they would not "in any way, shape or form endeavor to create, consign, transfer or sell any art work made in the likeness of a known work or artist."
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