Fakes at the V & A

The Victoria & Albert's had a gallery of fakes on display for quite a few years, but now it is hosting a special exhibition, not open to the public, focusing more on fakes currently in circulation:

On one wall hangs a Picasso, on another a Lowry and, down the corridor, a Giacometti. Together, the masterpieces at the Victoria and Albert Museum would be worth millions . . . if they were genuine.

But everything here is a fake. Each exhibit was created to dupe the experts. Forged art and antiques are so abundant on the international market that police seized enough to mount a V&A exhibition.

The Investigation of Fakes and Forgeries has been curated by the arts and antiques unit of the Metropolitan Police.

Posted by David on November 29, 2006 10:20 AM