Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some ...

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy ...

The fake art included forged works by Banksy, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. The operation, led by Pisa's Chief Prosecutor Teresa Angela Camelio, marks a major blow to art crime in ...

In September, two thieves were arrested and charged over the theft of his famed Girl with Balloon piece from a central London art gallery. Banksy’s art, which tends to be graffitied by the ...

Italian authorities say the network could have done 200 million euros ($212 million) in economic damage by flooding the art market with fake works. Fake Banksy artworks that were sized by police ...

The operation uncovered a network of forgers in Spain, France and Belgium who produced the works, said Eurojust, the European ...

including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, are displayed after Italian police uncover crime ring (via REUTERS) The investigation was taken up in March last year after Italian art police ...

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network that makes and sells fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art, including Banksy, ...

Banksy’s works, often created on public buildings, have been vulnerable to vandalism and theft. A recent “Urban Jungle” collection in London was defaced shortly after it appeared. Warhol’s art has ...