Six Arrested in Spain Over Forgery Case

October 26th, 2021

Six people have been arrested in the Spanish city of Valencia over a series of forged works attributed to Goya and other artists. “[The group’s] methods were as simple as placing a small piece of paper over a signature to swap it for another one, reusing both sides of a canvas, and imitating cracked paint by burning the canvas with a blowtorch,” the government said in a statement.

Read more at The Guardian