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Are Over Half the Works on the Art Market Really Fakes?

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A new study that claims over 70 percent of artworks for sale are fakes or misattributions. If that’s true, are galleries and the art-loving very rich being taken for fools?

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

Published Oct. 17 2014 5:45AM EDT

articles/2014/10/17/are-over-half-the-works-on-the-art-market-fakes/141017-sykes-art-forgery-tease_sbvblk — Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast

Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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