Out of all the works seized, 19 were included in the charge sheet when the trial began in 2014. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A painting with the inscription ‘Kazimir Malevich - Supremus’ was among the works seized by police in 2013. “There is a huge problem with forgeries in the field of the Russian avant-garde,” he told the Guardian. “In the case of Russian avant-garde art, the judgment of many academics is so distrusted that to have their approval on a work is the equivalent of consigning its authenticity to the ‘extremely doubtful category’,” he said. Reinhard Spieler, the director of Hanover’s Sprengel Museum, which is currently hosting a forgery-themed exhibition called Fake News, said forgeries had become an enormous problem, especially the Russian avant-garde market.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 04:52 UTC