{"id":485,"date":"2021-04-02T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-03-30T23:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:17:52","slug":"attempted-14-7-m-sale-of-fake-works-by-goya-modigliani-and-el-greco-comes-to-light-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/attempted-14-7-m-sale-of-fake-works-by-goya-modigliani-and-el-greco-comes-to-light-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted $14.7 M. Sale of Fake Works by Goya, Modigliani, and El Greco Comes to Light in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attempted \u20ac12.5 million (about $14.7 million) sale of fake works billed as paintings by\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_amedeo-modigliani\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"amedeo-modigliani\">Amedeo Modigliani<\/a>,\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_el-greco\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"el-greco\">El Greco<\/a>, and\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_francisco-de-goya\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"francisco-de-goya\">Francisco de Goya<\/a>\u00a0has been halted in Spain. According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/cultura\/2021-03-28\/incautadas-tres-obras-falsas-de-modigliani-goya-y-el-greco-en-venta-por-mas-de-12-millones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the newspaper\u00a0<em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, a collector from the Spanish province of Toledo had planned to sell the fake paintings in Switzerland, Mexico, and Germany, with the counterfeit Modigliani priced at \u20ac8.5 million (about $10 million), the El Greco at \u20ac2.5 million (about $3 million), and the Goya at \u20ac1.5 million (about $1.8 million).<\/p>\n<p>The works were reportedly accompanied by falsified documentation attesting to their authenticity. Other dealers who had been assisting with finding buyers for the fake works intended to take a 10 percent cut from the sales. The historical heritage group of the Valencian Generalitat Police and the brigade of historical heritage of the National Police Corps have stopped the planned sales from taking place and shared their findings with a court.<\/p>\n<p><em>El Pa\u00eds\u00a0<\/em>reports that experts from the Toledo Sephardic Museum and the Prado Museum in Madrid have \u201cissued the technical reports that show that these are counterfeit works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news out of Toledo is not the only art forgery news to emerge in recent months. Last fall, the seller of an allegedly forged Frans Hals portrait was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered<\/a>\u00a0by a London appeals court to pay Sotheby\u2019s $5.37 million. In July, a man in California was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to five years in prison for the attempted sale of fake paintings he said were created by Andy Warhol,\u00a0Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and other major figures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempted \u20ac12.5 million (about $14.7 million) sale of fake works billed as paintings by\u00a0Amedeo Modigliani,\u00a0El Greco, and\u00a0Francisco de Goya\u00a0has been halted in Spain. According to a\u00a0report\u00a0by the newspaper\u00a0El Pa\u00eds, a collector from the Spanish province of Toledo had planned to sell the fake paintings in Switzerland, Mexico, and Germany, with the counterfeit Modigliani priced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[123],"class_list":{"0":"post-485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news","12":"tag-amedeo-modigliani"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Attempted $14.7 M. 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