Swedish police have charged a former Stockholm art gallery owner with a 30 million kronor ($4.4 million) art forgery scam that involved faking works by such major-name artists as Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Edward Munch, and Egon Schiele.
The police wouldn’t name the dealer but said that they found 15 forged works when they searched his house and that he sold the fakes with forged certificates of authenticity from Sweden’s National Museum of Fine Arts.
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