A view of a portrait which Italian art experts now believe to have been created by Renaissance genius Raphael in Florence, Italy, 07 May 2010. The painting had lain in storage in a ducal palace since the 1970s. At the time, experts said it was probably a 17th-century copy of a painting from the Raphael [...]

Japanese museums will withdraw from exhibition three paintings purported to be by Marc Chagall because of claims that they are forgeries. The Marc Chagall Committee, a Paris-based group authorized to authenticate work by the Franco-Russian artist, has told the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo that the paintings attributed to Chagall in a recent exhibition [...]

Spanish police and the FBI have dismantled a multimillion-dollar international art forgery ring which duped hundreds of customers into buying counterfeit prints of works purporting to be by artists including Picasso, Warhol and Dali. Two Italians, one Spaniard and four Americans were charged in connection with two overlapping conspiracies believed to have netted about $5m [...]