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Angela Catherine Hamblin: The fake art dealer who fled the U.S re-arrested at Frankfurt airport

Tsuktiben Jamir We all remember Angela Catherine Hamblin, who was found guilty way back in 2009 of selling fake artworks worth over $400,000 on eBay, or through other private transactions. Over the course of five months in the year 2007, Hamblin offered for sale fake works of art ascribed to British watercolorist and printmaker Joseph […]

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Art of faking art

Rajesh Kumar “Simply train a pair of hands in understanding how a said artist worked, and the returns can be exponential”, says Arvind Vijaymohan, chief executive officer of Artery India. As Indian art world blossoms to new heights of popularity, similar is the scenario in the market of ‘fakes’. It definitely slows down the trade

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