Dealers revealed that as many as 95 percent of Russian avant-garde paintings currently in circulation aren’t legitimate, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

What’s in a forgery? More than you would expect, according to a new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Opening June 17, “Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection” brings together paintings, ...

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

Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses ...

In 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted the exhibit "Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries" — about how experts figure out whether artworks are authentic. Above, a painting titled A Female Saint (left) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Han van Meegeren fecit / Hope B. Werness -- What is wrong with a forgery? / Alfred Lessing -- Forgery and the anthropology of art / Leonard B. Meyer -- Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman -- ...

The suspected forgery, Heinrich Campendonk's “Landscape With Horses” (1915) (image via spiegel.de) The painting in question (seen above) is a rather fanciful expressionist composition caught somewhere ...

An evidence photo released by the Ontario Provincial Police of forgeries of Canadian Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau's work - Copyright AFP Alessandro SERRANO An ...