Bolton-made Gauguin fake sold for $125,000
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A Gauguin sculpture of a faun hailed as one of the most treasured recent acquisitions of the Art Institute of Chicago was yesterday unmasked as a fake - from Bolton
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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Hundreds of Dali paintings seized from an exhibition in Finland are forged, Helsinki Police confirm.
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A museum in the Netherlands said the portrait was not by Rembrandt, and the provincial auction house in England was only advertising it as a work by one of his followers Â valued at $3,078.
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Claude Monet's masterpiece Nympheas is expected to fetch up to Â£15m at auction.
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By Cammy Clark, The Miami Herald  Feb. 5--KEY WEST -- He has sold $30 million worth of his realism sculptures to museums, cities, private collectors and universities in such far-flung places as Hong Kong, Sydney, Istanbul and Kiev.
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An Italian antiquities trafficker running  a thriving business out of Switzerland duped some of the  world's most famous auction houses and museums with illegally  acquired artefacts, authorities said on Friday.
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Pseudo Picassos, counterfeit Chagalls and other fakes are on display in London this week, part of an effort by Scotland Yard to warn dealers about forged art that it says fuels crime gangs around the world.
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A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer, misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for 220,000 pounds ($428,800) at auction, more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
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The price of this painting at auction was Â£205,000 - but its real market value is likely to be Â£5m.
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LOS ANGELES: US authorities have seized a long-lost Picasso worth about $US10million ($13.4million) that was looted by Nazis during World War II.
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The sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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Spanish police find 125kg of bomb-making materials thought to belong to Basque separatists.
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Elton John has won 116,000 euros ($157,700) in damages and costs from a Paris art dealer who sold him sculptures apparently dating from the 18th century that turned out to be fake, according to court papers.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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By KATHARINE BARNEY  A MAN who made Pounds 170,000 a year selling fake fashion goods on eBay has been jailed for 12 months.   Simon Waugh, from Tolworth, was found guilty of importing thousands of counterfeit items.