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\n\tOn Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia<\/em> that it was conducting a \u201ccourt-authorized law enforcement activity.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tVictor Fiorillo, a senior reporter at Philadelphia <\/em>magazine, was on the scene of the search Wednesday, reporting that he \u201cwitnessed several FBI agents going in and out of the two-story building.\u201d When Fiorillo approached, an agent told him that they were executing a search warrant. <\/p>\n \n\tAfter the search was over, a handwritten note on the door listed a phone number; when Fiorillo called it, a gallery employee told him the gallery was \u201cclosed\u201d for the day but did not know why.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Dane Fine Art has been around for many years, it\u2019s not clear who the owners are. Fiorillo did some sleuthing in property records and found that the gallery\u2019s incorporation documents include a mailing address for a property once owned by Leslie Isen, the wife of art collector Nathan \u201cNicky\u201d Isen, who previously ran the now-defunct gallery I. Brewster & Company.<\/p>\n \n\tIsen also pleaded guilty in 2015 to money laundering in a scheme where he used art to allegedly launder drug money. That same year, Philadelphia<\/em> magazine published a deep dive into Isen. That piece detailed allegations that Isen sold fake artworks, though none of it has been proven.<\/p>\n \n\tDane Fine Art advertises on its website that it sells work by numerous blue-chip artists, including Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Keith Haring, Henri Matisse, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to name just a few of those listed on its artist page.<\/p>\n \n\tOn Thursday, the gallery held an online auction titled \u201cDog Days of Summer Modern & Contemporary Sale,\u201d offering what it said were original prints by Warhol, Haring, Renoir, and others.<\/p>\n \n\tWhen contacted by ARTnews<\/em> on Thursday, a gallery employee responded, \u201cNo comment,\u201d to questions about the FBI search. When asked to confirm whether Isen is the owner of Dane Fine Art, the employee hung up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/fbi-art-crime-searches-dane-fine-art-1234793945\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2284698745-e1785426684486.jpg?w=1024″] On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia that it was conducting a \u201ccourt-authorized law enforcement activity.\u201d Victor Fiorillo, a senior reporter at Philadelphia magazine, was on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2070493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}