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兩人在被指控詐騙包括 New York 一些最知名的精品藝術拍賣行在內的買家後，於法庭上致歉。 New Jersey 的一對父女已承認經營一項長達數年的造假計畫，誤導藝術畫廊和拍賣行購買 Andy Warhol、Banksy 和 Pablo Picasso 等著名藝術家的偽造畫作。 聯邦檢察官表示，50 歲的 Erwin Bankowski 與 26 歲的 Karolina Bankowska 委託一名位於 Poland 的藝術家創作了至少 200 件贗品，最終詐騙買家至少 $2m。 繼續閱讀...

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...

Madrid and Basque government leaders call each other ‘provincial’ in dispute over the artworkA row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica, probably Picasso’s most celebrated work, to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992 and repeated requests for it to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused. Continue reading...