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• Dupla pede desculpas no tribunal após ser acusada de fraudar compradores, incluindo algumas das casas de leilão de belas artes mais proeminentes de New York • Um pai e uma filha em New Jersey se declararam culpados de operar um esquema de falsificação de anos para enganar galerias de arte e casas de leilão para que comprassem pinturas forjadas de obras de artistas proeminentes como Andy Warhol, Banksy e Pablo Picasso • Promotores federais disseram que Erwin Bankowski, 50, e Karolina Bankowska, 26, encomendaram a um artista na Poland a criação de pelo menos 200 das falsificações e, por fim, fraudaram compradores em pelo menos $2m. Continue lendo...

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...