The fake paintings were being offered for between about $465,000 and $150 million, police said in a statement.
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This Forgery Ring Tried to Sell a Fake Rembrandt for $150 Million. The Real Painting Is Hanging in an Amsterdam Museum
The conspirators claimed that their canvas was the original, while the Rijksmuseum's was an inferior copy. They also marketed ...
The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by ...
They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a ...
A one-time auctioneer, Michael Barzman, has agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to FBI agents regarding the origins of paintings attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The artworks were ...
The Orlando Museum of Art’s Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit has been a focus of nationwide fascination since it was announced. The suddenly uncovered paintings were a godsend to longtime fans of the ...
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Fake or Fortune: Is a £35 painting worth £50,000?
An art blogger will soon discover if a painting he bought for £35 is by a well-known New Zealand artist and worth up to £50,000. Robjn Cantus, who lives near Cambridge, bought the picture in 2019, ...
A painting attributed to Caravaggio is at the center of a major investigation into alleged fraud by a Spanish art dealer. The artwork had been billed as a newly discovered masterpiece by the Italian ...
A quiet nightmare haunting museum directors is the fear that they may wind up with a fake masterpiece on their hands. Last week Sir Philip Hendy, director of London’s august National Gallery, woke up ...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons can purchase paintings and statues based on famous works from a vendor named Redd. Genuine paintings in Animal Crossing: New Horizons have labels on their backs, while ...
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