Rodney Gerrard - the fake

[ManfredT]

"His family lived/lives in pretty abject poverty. His older brother, Ray, had gotten out as soon as he could and has had little to do with the family since. Ironically, he was the one who obtained the Wilcox/Lomax fabric collection for Rodney when he was manager of the Playboy Club in London. Rodney was to be his family's great hope to escape from their surrondings. He showed great promise in engineering/architecture and was a good student. Then he was struck with his diabetes while still in his teens that made him, at best, a semi-invalid for the rest of his life"

Long before Alan Toelle examinated the fabric in 1991, I have told to Alex Imrie and others that all the stuff of Rodney Gerrard was faked. Alan Toelle has done a fine job, but this job was not needed to call this primitive work what it was.

Nobody believed me at that time.

The reason was money, which was spended by the collectors, and shame. I got a friendly " Well, the Germans, being Germans". The fakes must be detected in the USA.

I could tell a lot more about Rodney Gerrard.

Manfred Thiemeyer