Forgery in the manner of John Constable (1776–1837), "Seascape," watercolor, The Courtauld, London (all images courtesy Samuel Courtauld Trust) LONDON — A certain romanticism surrounds art forgery.

Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...

What’s in a forgery? More than you would expect, according to a new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Opening June 17, “Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection” brings together paintings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, ...

DB Henkel is accused of masterminding the plot to sell fake paintings by historical American artists. Gertrude Abercrombie, Coming Home (1947). The painting is now thought to be a forgery by DB Henkel ...

Deception is not new to the art world, but generative AI creates new pathways through which it can enter the market.

In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...

With its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession ...

Ambitious, laborious, and nearly impossible to pull of without attracting plenty of suspicion from those in a position to know such things, art forgery occupies a strange corner of the white-collar ...

Modern technology is allowing art historians to verify Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as real or fake by analyzing his artistic algorithm.

When the German chocolate tycoon Peter Ludwig decided to collect abstract paintings from the Soviet Union, he was bound to get duped. Educated in art history, and holding a PhD for his research on ...

There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone ...