The Extraordinary Career Of Granville Redmond

Philip McCouat from Art in Society explores the career of the Californian artist Granville Redmond, also a talented actor and mentor to Charlie Chaplin.

In October 2006, a painting titled Seascape at Twilight was stolen from the Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery. Shortly after, a person known as Matthew Taylor sold the painting to a Beverly Hills dealer for $85,000, falsely stating that his mother had owned it for several years. The scam was later uncovered and Taylor was duly convicted for selling a stolen work [1]. Happily, too, the painting itself was also eventually safely recovered. 

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