It involves a bank and a dealer who together tried to cash in on the art boom, but just a little too late.
Since the 1980s art boom, frames have sometimes fetched a million dollars.
The art boom in Harlem is, of course, part of something larger.
What happened to these paintings reveals the contours of the aboriginal art boom.
Ross arrived a year or two after the air had fizzed out of the 1980's art boom.
Dealers and auctioneers alike say the times are comparable to the art boom's peak in the late 1980's.
The attention she received coincided with the worldwide art boom that occurred at this time.
This capital city, long scorned by many Indians as a dull bureaucratic town, is suddenly in the middle of an art boom.
This makes the art boom a subject of controversy.
The money that funded the art boom before 2008 came from the financial sector.