This forged Mark Rothko painting was part of an art dealer's 15-year scam that fooled collectors into buying more than £45 million of counterfeit paintings attributed to Rothko and others.
In June 2013, German police broke up a multimillion-pound international forgery ring producing bogus works attributed to Russian avant-garde artists like Vasily Kandinsky.
Dutch master forger Han van Meegeren's forgery of Vermeer's 'The Last Supper' hangs on display at the De Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam, surrounded by other faux Vermeers.
In 2002, the Greenhalghs, a family of art forgers, convinced the Bolton Museum to buy this faked statue of an Egyptian princess for nearly £450,000.
Born in 1906, Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who is said to have sold more than a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. de Hory died in 1976.
