Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, ...
DB Henkel is accused of masterminding the plot to sell fake paintings by historical American artists. Gertrude Abercrombie, Coming Home (1947). The painting is now thought to be a forgery by DB Henkel ...
The sentencing hearing for a Niagara-area man convicted of selling mimicked works of late Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau ...
Ambitious, laborious, and nearly impossible to pull of without attracting plenty of suspicion from those in a position to know such things, art forgery occupies a strange corner of the white-collar ...
Tony Tetro (left) "emulates" the works of masters such as Picasso (right), Dalí and Monet, even mimicking their signatures. John Chapple; Getty Images Tony Tetro ranks among the world’s most talented ...
Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Art forgery has shadowed the art market for centuries, but in the last few decades it has escalated into a global industry.
German police believe Martin bought forged painting for around $850,000 in 2004. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany — German police believe actor Steve Martin may be among the ...
Two Carabinieri officers with the Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage with a display of counterfeit Banksy artworks uncovered in an art forgery investigation (all images courtesy Ministero ...
This article originally appeared in The New York Times. ST. PETER, Minn. – Mark Forgy’s home on the outskirts of Minneapolis looks like a museum. Works of art hang floor to ceiling. They hang in ...
When the German chocolate tycoon Peter Ludwig decided to collect abstract paintings from the Soviet Union, he was bound to get duped. Educated in art history, and holding a PhD for his research on ...