Marketplace - Trafficking
Finnish forgeries: the couple behind a €13 million art scam
In Helsinki, a couple was recently sentenced to jail time and a hefty fine of €13 million for partaking in a five-year art forgery scam. Gallery owners Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen, […]
Dead Sea Scrolls fragments belonging to the Museum of the Bible found to be forgeries
It was announced by Washington D.C.’s Museum of the Bible on 22 October 2018 that five of their Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are, in fact, modern forgeries. Following the suspicions […]
The new Benin Royal Museum to see the temporary restitution of art and artifacts
European museums have consistently been tied up in issues of repatriation of artworks looted and taken from their home countries throughout history. The British Museum is one such museum housing artifacts […]
Painting stolen in 1989 recently sold for £62,500 but remains in limbo
On 11 July 2018, the auctioneer’s gavel fell selling the ‘recently rediscovered’ Emma Sandys 1874 painting for £62,500 (estimated at £20,000 to £30,000) in Christie’s Victorian Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist […]
Are museums filled with forgeries?
Do visitors to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg realize that “at least half the paintings hanging there are copies” and that the origianls have been discreetly sold to foreign […]
