$400 thousand, rescued three Americans for fake Hirst prints
ARTinvestment.RU   20 июня 2017

Licensed Studio Hirst prints with different colored circles printed on a color printer

Court of new-Йорка filed fraud charges against Vincent Lopresto 52 years, Paula Motta 50 years and Marco Saverino 34 years. The ideologist in the criminal scheme was Loprete. And this is not his first time. He got for the sale of counterfeits for five years in a Californian prison, and from 2013 to 2015, served time in new-йоркской.

And only 15 days after his release, he again began the sale of counterfeit Hirst prints across the Internet, — the Prosecutor claims new-йоркского court. During the period from October 2015-го to February 2017-го mediated Sex Motta and Marco Severino Loprete sold fake lottery charts Hirst's $400 thousand took the bait purchasers from USA, Britain, Germany, South Africa, South Korea. "Prints" sold for $3-5 thousand, and some (for example, Mickey-Маусом) — for $14 thousand.

Loprete was arrested in New Orleans on June 14. Orleans in his apartment were found four fake prints and the printer, according to the court, "ideal for printing reproductions".

Damien Hirst — is the most commercially successful representative of the group Young British Artists ("Young British artists"). Most of his works on the market are limited edition items, created employing an army of assistants. The most expensive work by Hirst — Cabinet with colored pills "spring dream", sold in 2007 at Sotheby's auction for $19.2 million (10-е place in the ranking of living artists).

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artdaily.com, nytimes.com, artinvestment.ru