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Art forgery is alive and thriving, even here in 2026. Dealers revealed that as many as 95 percent of Russian avant-garde paintings currently in circulation aren’t legitimate, a staggering figure that ...

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 ...

In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...

Italian police have dismantled a pan-European forgery network accused of producing and distributing replica artworks by more than 30 artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Andy ...

March 15 -- John Myatt, the unassuming master forger at the heart of what British police have called the biggest contemporary art fraud of the 20th century, once stood at the back of an auction room ...

Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple ...

Italian officials said they had dismantled a Europe-wide network of forgers and dealers selling works purported to be by A-list artists, mostly through auction houses. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...

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V&A art detective Vernon Rapley poses with forger’s tools during a past exhibition on artistic forgeries. Photo by Anthony Devlin/PA Images via Getty Images To combat what it called the “scourge” of ...

PhD candidate in Creative Writing, University of the Sunshine Coast Art forgery is a devilish attempt to deceive its audience. Experts’ negative reaction to Kirsha Kaechele’s admission she forged the ...

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