I just want to know the answer to one question: how can an artist feature that their painting is "a California plein air painting" when they live in some other state and haven't been to California in, like, years or ever!? Or they are in China for gosh sake!

Interestingly, in the April 7th issue of Forbes Magazine there was an article entitled, "Pump and Dump" which was a behind the scenes look at how art dealers in China manipulate the market for legitimate Chinese artist's work. The title of the article says it all!