Forgery in the manner of John Constable (1776–1837), "Seascape," watercolor, The Courtauld, London (all images courtesy Samuel Courtauld Trust) LONDON — A certain romanticism surrounds art forgery.

A father-daughter counterfeiting team admitted in Brooklyn court Tuesday they forged documents to help sell fake art by Banksy, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and others to unsuspecting buyers.

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, ...

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 ...

With faking and forgery at the heart of Steven Soderbergh’s new art-world drama The Christophers, we went looking for further frauds on film and came up with these 10 genuine originals.

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 ...

The art world is "fertile ground for criminals," says art scholar Noah Charney. In his new book, The Art of Forgery, he traces a tradition of... Could The Masterpiece Be A Fake? Profit, Revenge And ...

When the German chocolate tycoon Peter Ludwig decided to collect abstract paintings from the Soviet Union, he was bound to get duped. Educated in art history, and holding a PhD for his research on ...

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