Italy: Police bust crime network forging renowned paintings
Police seized hundreds of millions of euros worth of forged paintings attributed to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Banksy and others.
The suspects allegedly attempted to sell the artworks at auction houses.
Police seized hundreds of millions of euros worth of forged paintings attributed to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Banksy and others. The suspects allegedly attempted to sell the artworks at auction houses.
Paintings by American pop art pioneer Andy Warhol were among those forged
More than 2,100 fake paintings that were claimed to be by dozens of famous artists, including Andy Warhol, Banksy, Vincent Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso, have been confiscated by Italian police.
Investigators said on Monday that the artworks had a potential market value of €200 million ($215 million).
The chief prosecutor of Pisa, Teresa Angela Camelio, said experts from the Banksy archive assisted with the investigation and considered it to be “the biggest act of protection of Banksy’s work.”
0Italy: Police bust crime network forging renowned paintings
Police seized hundreds of millions of euros worth of forged paintings attributed to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Banksy and others.
The suspects allegedly attempted to sell the artworks at auction houses.CrimeItaly
Police seized hundreds of millions of euros worth of forged paintings attributed to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Banksy and others. The suspects allegedly attempted to sell the artworks at auction houses.
Paintings by American pop art pioneer Andy Warhol were among those forged
Police in Italy have seized more than 2,100 forged artworks that were attributed to dozens of greats like Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Banksy.
Investigators said on Monday that the artworks had a potential market value of €200 million ($215 million).
The chief prosecutor of Pisa, Teresa Angela Camelio, said experts from the Banksy archive assisted with the investigation and considered it to be “the biggest act of protection of Banksy’s work.”
Other artists whose works were allegedly forged include Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Claude Monet, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Gustav Klimt, Wassily Kandinsky, Francis Bacon and many more.
