When art dealer Ramon Cernuda talks, people listen. Some may not like his message, but he says it anyway. In the Eighties he drew angry protests by declaring he had a constitutional right to buy and exhibit art from Cuba, even if the island was under communist rule and subject to a U.S. trade embargo. In the Nineties he embarrassed a number of private collectors who had spent tens of thousands of dollars on paintings that he very publicly deemed fakes. Simultaneously he angered the Coral Gables gallery owners who sold the alleged fakes -- he even picketed outside their doors --...
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Jonathan Postal
Art dealer Gary Nader (left) avoids Cuban paintings and doesn't trust so-called experts; Eleanora Hanuszkiewicz (right), who once owned La Boheme Fine Art, was dragged into litigation after a customer alleged she sold a fake Mario CarreƱo