The most famous art forgery crime in history is the 1945 case of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, who was initially arrested for treason. He was accused of selling authentic works by Vermeer, 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 ...

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CINCINNATI - Fool me once, the saying goes. But 50 times? That's what a convincing art forger did for nearly three decades when he donated his copies of Picassos and other works of art to unsuspecting ...

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

There are 11 suspects in the investigation, including a 77-year-old ringleader. Patrick Haggenmueller, head of the Art Investigation Unit of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, stands next to ...

Forged from an original work by 19th-century French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau, a painting by art forger Mark A. Landis, of Laurel, Miss. is seen on exhibit at the University of Cincinnati in ...

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- An art forger and his three accomplices, who made at least 10 million euros ($14 million) by selling oil paintings they falsely attributed to famous artists, were today ...

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