via: Bloggy

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On Saturday, Mike Weiss called the police on Eric [Doeringer]. James has the story. This is my favorite part:

He packed up his work and confronted Mr. Weiss, who admitted he had called the police. He said that he didn’t like “seeing people walking around with tiny paintings,” while he was paying high rent for his gallery and, “trying to sell $30,000 paintings.” When Doeringer told him he was certainly going to let everyone he knew in the art world hear about what he had done, Weiss said, “If that’s the way you want to play it, I’ll call the police whenever I see you anywhere.”

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Eric has posted his account on his website.

What a dork. Seriously, someone goes to Weiss for a painting retailing for thousands of dollars but decides to plunk down 100 bucks for a small ‘bootleg’ instead? Bullshit.

update:
Moody’s got some comments about this as well as some images of Doeringer’s ‘bootlegs.’ permanent link to this post