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Fake Wyeth Work Recovered by FBI

Published: October 2, 2009
WILMINGTON, Del.—A counterfeit copy of a 1939 watercolor by Andrew Wyeth was recovered by the FBI after a California dealer who purchased it nine years ago asked a Texas auction house to sell it.

When the auction house contacted the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa., known for its collection of works by the Wyeth family, a curator there recognized the work as a painting Wyeth had identified as fake in response to an inquiry from a Connecticut art dealer a decade earlier. The California dealer had paid about $20,000 for the copy of Wreck at Doughnut Point.

Read more at the Associated Press.

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