Average quality fake they posed for this picture Goya value 900 thousand euros, and photocopies — for authentic lithographs

the Police of Spain has exposed a gang of criminals involved in the forgery of works of Old Masters. As reported by the Spanish media, the police searches were carried out, which found 27 works iskusstva@

Criminal group suspected disseminated via the Internet and a variety of galleries fake "Dutch", "Goya" and other Seized during searches in the province of castellón 27 work was estimated by fraudsters total of 1.2 million euros. The investigation was launched after one of the detectives offered to buy for 180 thousand euros on a certain Internet site picture of the Adoration of Volkov@

Bogus vary greatly in quality. So, one of the most "expensive" of the works, estimated scammers 900 thousand euros, was given for the work of Goya, although it is at best only half approached the style of the great master. However, criminals believed that the high price will convince potential customers of the authenticity raboty@

Among the best quality fakes, police said imitation of the works of Dutch painter Melchior de hondecoeter - still life and a portrait of St. Jerome. The Scam, according to the police, used the ashes of orange trees, in order to properly age paintings. Such fakes are pretty easy to expose. More experienced forgers (such as Wolfgang Beltratti, for example) do not use artificial methods of aging, and these paintings of the era, they're going imfirewall@

But the wild idea that came to mind Spanish Scam, be issued for a series of original prints by Goya simple photocopies. These "prints" were offered at a price of 2.5 thousand euros for stuco@

in recent weeks in Spain this is the second exposed a gang of forgers art. In January police arrested three criminals in the cities of Zaragoza and Tarragona, which tried to sell fake paintings by Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. It is unknown whether between these two gruppi@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: ccaa.elpais.com, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru