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 ...
Spanish police are investigating four people for fraud after they allegedly tried to sell forged paintings for more than €76 million ($84 million), falsely claiming they were works by the masters ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist and forger, David Henty - Christopher Pledger I still remember vividly the last time I paid a visit to David Henty. Back in ...
A central Florida art museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, ...
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is planning on passing new laws and strengthening penalties to combat art forgeries in order to protect a multimillion dollar art market that officials believe will ...
Fake artworks don't often come to light because of the reputational risk to the galleries or auction houses involved, insiders say. Dealers talk about having a "sense" when they feel a work might be a ...
On the heels of a new Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition opening in Los Angeles — one that purports to get to the truth of who the late artist really was — news regarding Basquiat forgeries, shown in a ...
Thanh Chương’s painting “Truu Tuong,” painted over to appear signed by Vietnamese artist Ta Ty (photo via @hello_kimmy_kat/Instagram) The Ho Chi Minh City ...
ALEXANDRIA — A New Orleans art dealer pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in a scheme to pass off forged paintings as the works of Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter. Robert E. Lucky, 64, of ...