German court convicts dealers in Russian avant-garde forgery case
A Wiesbaden court handed prison sentences to Itzhak Zarug and Moez Ben Hazaz in a case involving forged paintings and invented provenance for works attributed to Russian avant-garde artists including Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. The image shows a detail from a work attributed to Alexandra Exter that was disputed at trial.
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