by Christopher Hudgens | Apr 11, 2008 | Blog
Head of a Man is the name given to a $5 million Vincent Van Gogh portrait that was purchased in 1940. Only thing is now no one belives it is a Van Gogh. The Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum performed a 10-month investigation by scholars and has found the portrait was...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog
Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Andy Warhol were among artists whose works were counterfeited by seven people indicted for two art-fraud schemes that reaped a combined $5 million. Those charged include three Europeans and residents of New York, Florida and Illinois,...
by Christopher Hudgens | Dec 12, 2007 | Blog
The Art Institute of Chicago announced yesterday that the Gauguin ceramic sculpture “The Faun” which has been on display for about a decade is infact a forgery by Shaun Greenhalgh who is part of a larger family of forgers that has been under investigation...