"GIMME SOME TRUTH :THE ARTWORK OF JOHN LENNON": SHAM DRAWINGS?

"Gimme Some Truth: The Artwork of John Lennon," may have been the title of last weekend's Lennon exhibition in New York, but fans and collectors who paid thousands of dollars for prints of the late Beatle's work may have purchased something that is not the truth at all

Some of the drawings Yoko Ono presented at the show in honor of Lennon's 71st birthday and sold as "lithographs, serigraphs, and copper etchings hand printed from the original drawings" for thousands of dollars have been allegedly recomposed and colored by Ono, essentially cut-and-paste mashups of Lennon themes rather than Lennon prints. Florida-based Gary Arseneau, who calls himself an "artist, creator of original lithographs, scholar, and author" sent ARTINFO an email accusing Ono of altering Lennon's pieces.

"The so-called 'Artwork of John Lennon' being offered for sale in SoHo this weekend was actually posthumously forged in color and new compositions, each part of bogus editions with counterfeit John Lennon chop mark/signatures," wrote Arsenau in the email.

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