Art forgery

Madrid court sentences collector over 15 forgeries offered at auction

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Madrid court sentences collector over 15 forgeries offered at auction
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A Madrid court sentenced a collector to four years in prison for trying to sell 15 fakes through Setdart, including works attributed to Edvard Munch and Roy Lichtenstein. The photograph shows Lichtenstein’s original Whaam! at Tate Modern.

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Art forgeryEdvard MunchRoy Lichtenstein

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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