The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by Frida Kahlo, Amadeo Modigliani and Peter Paul Rubens, authorities say.
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This Forgery Ring Tried to Sell a Fake Rembrandt for $150 Million. The Real Painting Is Hanging in an Amsterdam Museum
The conspirators claimed that their canvas was the original, while the Rijksmuseum's was an inferior copy. They also marketed ...
A painting hailed as a Moïse Kisling masterwork, held in the collection of a Japanese company, was uncovered as a fake.
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