Jasper Johns’s former assistant sentenced for selling stolen works
James Meyer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling 37 works stolen from Jasper Johns’s Connecticut studio. Prosecutors described fabricated documentation used to reassure buyers about the works’ provenance.
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