Ronald D. Spencer, counsel at Carter Ledyard, served as one of the major interview subjects for the film Made You Look, a documentary about the largest art fraud in American history. Ron, who serves as Chairman and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, has helped several authentication committees and boards of experts successfully defend against claims involving decisions on authenticity. He has advised collectors on the authenticity of their works of art in addition to helping establish numerous art foundations.
Ron is the author of The Expert Versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts, published in 2004 by Oxford University Press, and Spencer’s Art Law Journal.