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FBI Seizes Fake Andrew Wyeth Painting

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery, but in the art world it’s not always seen that way. The FBI announced Monday that in July it had seized a fraudulent Andrew Wyeth painting “Snow Birds” from a New York auction house . The FBI said the fraudulent painting, which…

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FBI Seizes Well-Traveled Fake Andrew Wyeth Painting

allan16 years ago12 years ago01 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If only this were our biggest crime problem in America. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the FBI seized “a well-traveled forgery of a 1939 Andrew Wyeth watercolor, the fourth such counterfeit painting to surface since the artist’s death in January.” Art fraud is a multi-billion dollar industry. The paper reported that…