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Pasangan tersebut meminta maaf di pengadilan setelah dituduh menipu pembeli termasuk beberapa rumah lelang seni rupa paling terkemuka di New York. Seorang ayah dan anak di New Jersey telah mengaku bersalah menjalankan skema pemalsuan selama bertahun-tahun untuk mengelabui galeri seni dan rumah lelang agar membeli lukisan palsu dari karya seniman terkemuka seperti Andy Warhol, Banksy, dan Pablo Picasso. Jaksa federal mengatakan Erwin Bankowski, 50, dan Karolina Bankowska, 26, memesan seorang seniman di Polandia untuk membuat sedikitnya 200 lukisan palsu dan akhirnya menipu pembeli setidaknya senilai $2 juta. Lanjutkan membaca...

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...