Unsuspecting buyers with repro documents

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

'It's a catastrophe.' French museum learns half its paintings are fake

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...210101264.html

Yes, they learned that half their paintings of Corvettes from the late 1800's were fake! Wonder how they figured it out? :-)

[67BelAir427]

Originally Posted by njsteve

Yes, they learned that half their paintings of Corvettes from the late 1800's were fake! Wonder how they figured it out? :-)

A museum in Japan had a curator who was found guilty of stealing rare oil paintings and replacing them with perfect forgeries that he painted himself. After he was sentenced , he agreed to identify the paintings that he forged. He found several that were perfect fakes, but not his work. Turns out that someone else was doing the same thing at the same time!

[njsteve]

Amazing. Sorry to hijack the thread but you'd think that the forgers could make some serious bucks simply painting modern portraits of people in the original masters' style and selling them with full disclosure. I think it would be pretty amazing to have a "Day 2" Rembrandt of me and the family hanging on my wall.

[firstgenaddict]

Originally Posted by njsteve

Amazing. Sorry to hijack the thread but you'd think that the forgers could make some serious bucks simply painting modern portraits of people in the original masters' style and selling them with full disclosure. I think it would be pretty amazing to have a "Day 2" Rembrandt of me and the family hanging on my wall.

They do... main to wall in one generation and need the paintings to match.