If you’ve ever visited the Louvre in Paris and seen the Mona Lisa, you may well have been underwhelmed. Not because the ...
Had the 450 works been sold at auction, the could have pulled in $265 million. Not bad for a bunch of fakes. Italian ...
More than 2,100 counterfeit pieces were seized, including works falsely attributed to Banksy, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso.
Paris prosecutor has requested that the Swiss art dealer and his business partner Olivier Thomas should face charges relating ...
Police in Italy say they have busted a major European criminal network forging and selling artworks by some of the biggest ...
A Swiss art dealer, Yves Bouvier, is at the centre of a long-running legal saga after a French court ruled that ...
Italian police have uncovered a vast European art forgery network that specialised in reproducing and illegally selling works ...
News about an “18th century painting by Picasso” dated 1875 rapidly circulated in Turkish media following the raid.
The catch: The pieces are all fakes. The works are among the more than 2,100 pieces seized by Italy’s specialized art theft squad over the past year in an effort to break up a Europe-wide ...
Italian authorities say they have dismantled a network of art forgers who made fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then ...
The operation uncovered a network of forgers in Spain, France and Belgium who produced the works, said Eurojust, the European ...