Bernard Ewell, Park West Gallery

A Third Party Complaint was filed on 26 August 2009 by Fine Art Registry adjoin Bernard Ewell, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, an adjudicator and self-styled able in the works of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, who has for years been paid by Park West Gallery, a Michigan based arcade which sells art mainly through cruise address based art auctions, to accompaniment that the ample amount of Salvador Dalí prints the arcade sells are 18-carat and that the declared Dalí signatures abounding of them blade are legitimate.

The Third Party Complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, Case No. 2:08-CV-12247 afore the Hon. Lawrence P. Zatkoff, asserts that abundant statements fabricated about by Ewell on his website and blog, which has arresting links on Park West Gallery’s website, are apocryphal and defamatory, baffle with Fine Art Registry business relationships, and that Ewell has conspired with Park West Gallery to abort the accomplished acceptability and amicableness which Fine Art Registry has earned. On his blog, Ewell has, in concert with Park West Gallery, maintained a abandoned advance on Fine Art Registry and the accustomed Dalí experts who accept assisted Fine Art Registry with its advancing analysis into allegations of Park West’s counterfeit bribery of Salvador Dalí prints they sell. The analysis by Fine Art Registry followed abundant complaints on the allotment of barter of Park West Gallery that they had been defrauded by Park West. A amount of lawsuits, including six chic action suits, adjoin Park West Gallery on the allotment of its victims are in progress.

In particular, Ewell has again declared a bartering accord amid Salvador Dalí art banker Bruce Hochman of the Salvador Dalí Gallery and Fine Art Registry which has demonstrably never existed. Ewell has advisedly fabricated a amount of apocryphal allegations about Fine Art Registry, allegedly in an attack to assure Park West Gallery who accept been paying him for at atomic ten years to abutment their claims about the Dalí prints they sell. Ewell has aswell defamed internationally accustomed Dalí experts Robert and Nicolas Descharnes of the Descharnes Archives in Paris, relied on by Sotheby’s and Christie’s to accredit the Dalí pieces they action for auction, and Frank Hunter, Director of the Salvador Dalí Archives in New York, all of whom accept advised Dalí prints awash by Park West and “authenticated” by Bernard Ewell, and begin them to be misrepresented. In his alacrity to appear to his own aegis and to the aegis of his paymaster, Park West Gallery, Ewell, who decidedly is not active by the top arrangement houses for authentication, publishes abounding apocryphal and abusive statements adjoin these experts in his blog. Now the words accept recoiled on the biographer and he will accept to avert himself in court. Loyalty to one’s adept is about a commendable thing, but in this case Ewell has overstepped the mark, appear too abounding lies, and now his words accept backfired on himself and his paymaster, Park West Gallery.

On August 26th, 2009, Bernard Ewell was mentioned in a bi-weekly article in Barcelona, Spain’s La Razón, which raises an countenance at Ewell’s self-proclaimed cachet of “Dalí detective”, refers to him as “detective” Ewell, and credibility out that Dalí’s official cataloguer, Albert Field, accuses Ewell of pirating his (Field’s) plan and acutely questions the authority of Ewell’s methods. More importantly, the article states that the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueres, Spain, has declared that Ewell’s claims that he was arrive to the Foundation as a Dalí able are false.

Don Payton of Kaufman, Payton & Chapa, apery Fine Art Registry in the case adjoin Ewell and Park West, said: "On account of Global Fine Art Registry (FAR), we accept been affected to book a third affair action adjoin Park West's retained, alleged expert, Bernard Ewell due to awful and abusive comments fabricated by him on his website blog. He has fabricated abundant false, assumed and counterfeit statements about FAR, its employees, The Salvador Dali Gallery and the world's a lot of acclaimed Dali experts, Mr. Nicholas Descharnes and Mr. Frank Hunter. Additionally, Ewell has approved to discredit FAR to its customers, members, readers, etc. in an attack to put FAR out of business. This new action by FAR will set the almanac beeline and abuse this wannabe able area it absolutely hurts – his pocketbook."

Jonathan Schwartz, addition advocate at Kaufman, Payton & Chapa, apery Fine Art Registry and some of the victims suing Park West, said, “We attending advanced to attention the accomplished acceptability of FAR and proving the accuracy of the candid investigations by FAR in the advance of this litigation. The aftereffect will be amiable not just to FAR but aswell to the art bazaar in general, and collectors of Salvador Dalí artwork in particular.”

By this Third Party Complaint, Ewell has been added as a actor in the advancing action of Fine Art Registry with Park West Gallery in the US District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan.

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