Art forgery

Dealer sentenced to 41 months for American art forgeries

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Counterfeit artworks sold by Eric Spoutz; FBI
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Eric Ian Hornak Spoutz received imprisonment for selling dozens of forgeries attributed to artists including de Kooning, Franz Kline and Joan Mitchell, using aliases and fabricated provenance.

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Art forgeryFranz KlineJoan Mitchell

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

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