Dutch art forger Geert Jan Jansen, once dubbed the master forger of the 20th century, has gone legit with an exhibition of his work in the city of Zeist.

The forger emerged from prison and began a new, comfortable living selling “original Malskat forgeries.” After all, it’s the story that that sells the art.

More than 1,000 paintings were seized and eight people face a total of 40 charges resulting from a years-long police investigation into the forgery of artwork by Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau.

In The Art of the Con, author Anthony M. Amore explains why art forgers love Jackson Pollock and why high-tech tools aren’t enough to detect sophisticated frauds.

Dutch painter and forger Han van Meegeren photographed in 1945 with one of his fake Vermeers. Nationaal Archief NL, CC BY In this way the art forger is a Robin Hood-type of criminal the public can ...

Educating people about forgery and letting people know about Landis "is the only way to stop him," said Mark Tullos, director of the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, La ...

Some convicted art forgers have gone on to have stellar careers after being released from jail. ‘An intriguing idea for a plot’ … Sydney-based Belinda Alexandra on The Masterpiece.

An art forger duped art collectors by making woodcuts and touting them as rare historic artworks. Earl Marshawn Washington sold counterfeit art online, swindling art collectors out of over $200,000.

The works are among the more than 2,100 pieces seized by Italy’s specialized art theft squad over the past year in an effort to break up a Europe-wide network of art forgers and dealers accused ...

Some convicted art forgers have gone on to have stellar careers after being released from jail. ‘An intriguing idea for a plot’ … Sydney-based Belinda Alexandra on The Masterpiece.