These Art Museums Were the Sites of Dramatic Heists - 2
May 10, 2018
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.
Photograph by Patrick Semansky, AP Photo
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.
Photograph by Fredrik von Erichsen, AP Photos
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.
Photograph by Jasper Juinene, Reuters
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.
Photograph by Peter Byrne, PA Images, Getty
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.
