ArtsBeat: Jasper Johns Assistant Charged With Stealing the Artist’s Work:
“The long-time assistant of the Pop art master Jasper Johns was arrested on charges that he stole at least 22 works from his employer and sold them through an unnamed New York gallery for $6.5 million.”
Hans Namuth/Hans Namuth Estate Jasper Johns, center, with his assistant, James Meyer, right, and an unknown associate in 1989.
In the 27 years that James Meyer worked for the Pop Art master Jasper Johns, the assistant answered the artist’s phone, stretched his canvases, bought his paintbrushes and even drew lines on his canvases.
(Via NYT > Art & Design.)