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

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 ...

Police first caught on to the group’s activities when the main suspect offered for sale two supposedly original Picassos.

Consider Supporting HoH: In 1946, the second world war had just ended, a Dutch artist and art collector stood trial in Amsterdam. His charge? Collaboration, for selling cherished cultural heritage to ...

The most famous art forgery crime in history is the 1945 case of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, who was initially arrested for treason. He was accused of selling authentic works by Vermeer, the ...

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