Carabinieri and Pisa prosecutor say 38 people are being investigated with about 2,100 fake artworks seized
A work by Banksy on display at a 2018 exhibition in Milan. Police in Italy have seized more than 2,100 fake pieces, some purporting to be by the British artist.A work by Banksy on display at a 2018 exhibition in Milan. Police in Italy have seized more than 2,100 fake pieces, some purporting to be by the British artist.
Other allegedly forged artists included giants of 19th- and 20th-century art such as Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian. They said their investigation started in 2023 when they seized about 200 fake pieces from the collection of a businessman in Pisa, including a copy of a drawing by the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani.
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