The fake paintings were being offered for between about $465,000 and $150 million, police said in a statement.

The conspirators claimed that their canvas was the original, while the Rijksmuseum's was an inferior copy. They also marketed ...

The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by ...

They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a ...

Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses ...

A one-time auctioneer, Michael Barzman, has agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to FBI agents regarding the origins of paintings attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The artworks were ...

A gallery assistant studies a forgery "Virgin and Child, called the Madonna of the Veil" created by Umberto Giunti, in the manner of Sandro Botticelli at a press view for "Art and Artifice: Fakes from ...

A quiet nightmare haunting museum directors is the fear that they may wind up with a fake masterpiece on their hands. Last week Sir Philip Hendy, director of London’s august National Gallery, woke up ...

There’s a song stuck in my head, and I know it’s kind of a corny one to bring up, but I think you’ll understand it in the end. The Disney ditty "It’s a Small World" (I warned you: pure corn) popped up ...

In the early 1920s, Jean-Charles Millet was struggling to break into the Parisian art scene. The shadow of his grandfather, Jean-François Millet, weighed heavy. The elder artist’s unflattering ...

German police say they've broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to ...