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La pareja se disculpa ante el tribunal tras ser acusada de defraudar a compradores, incluidas algunas de las casas de subastas de bellas artes más destacadas de New York. Un padre y una hija en New Jersey se han declarado culpables de dirigir durante años un esquema de falsificación para engañar a galerías de arte y casas de subastas para que compraran pinturas falsas de obras de artistas destacados como Andy Warhol, Banksy y Pablo Picasso. Los fiscales federales declararon que Erwin Bankowski, de 50 años, y Karolina Bankowska, de 26, encargaron a un artista en Poland la creación de al menos 200 de las falsificaciones y, en última instancia, estafaron a los compradores por al menos $2m. Continuar leyendo...

Ari Hodara bought his ticket at the weekend after finding out about the raffle by chance while dining outA Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out on Tuesday he had won a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than €1m with a €100 raffle ticket.“How do I check that it’s not a hoax?” said Ari Hodara, 58, after organisers called him following the draw at Christie’s auction house in the French capital. Continue reading...

Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s researchA raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research.Picasso painted the gouache-on-paper Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman) in 1941. The raffle organisers’ online sales platform says the number of tickets will be capped at 120,000, meaning the draw could net €12m if they are all sold. Continue reading...