Following the rediscovery of Nazi looted work in an Argentinian home, Alexander Herman asks how the art market can sufficiently root out toxic provenance

By the time London dealer Patrick Matthiesen realised the person he had handed “Mother and Child on a Hammock” over to was not who he claimed to be, it was too late

Jeff Cowan had been accused of sourcing forgeries and fabricating false provenance documents

The arrests come as two men are charged for gang theft and criminal association

A 77-year old man is the main suspect in an investigation that has involved raids in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein

The delays to updating the museum’s apparently lacklustre surveillance infrastructure, meanwhile, have been blamed on its ambitious renovation plans

If the works are found to be fakes, exhibition organisers may face criminal charges

In the wake of several high-profile legal battles and stricter enforcement, advisories like the The ArtRisk Group help avoid financial disaster—and stay on the right side of the law

Court orders fraudster to pay more than $186,000 in restitution and a $50,000 fine, plus serve a two-month prison sentence

New York court told of elaborate fake provenances, forgery toolkits and freshly excavated artefacts bound for the antiquities art market

The replica etchings are among more than 100 fake contemporary works of art that have been seized by Italian authorities since 2022

James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking

The first-of-its-kind case saw Oghenochuko Ojiri, an expert on the BBC's ‘Bargain Hunt’, sentenced to two and a half years in prison earlier this month

The new film by Kelly Reichardt, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, centres on the theft of four paintings from a fictional Massachusetts museum in 1970

Leslie Roberts, whose Miami Fine Art Gallery was recently raided by the FBI, faces up to 30 years in prison for wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering

Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal

Once a high-profile adviser to elite art collectors, Schiff will spend 30 months in prison

From $200m to upwards of $1bn, the estimated value of the 13 works stolen in Boston on 18 March 1990 has varied in the decades since

Thomas Trotta was part of a theft ring that nabbed a variety of items, including sports memorabilia and gold nuggets, from museums on the East Coast of the US over two decades

The dealer’s two-year prison sentence for embezzlement was pushed back pending appellate court rulings

The objects, on loan from the Romanian National History Museum in Bucharest, belonged to members of the lost Dacian civilisation

The items—which include a helmet discovered by playing children—belonged to members of the lost Dacian civilisation

The Ace Gallery founder has also been ordered to pay back millions in restitution

The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

Italian police used wire taps and drone surveillance to intercept the thieves

The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener

Vast Europe-wide art fraud operation led to 38 suspects being arrested

Two of the vulnerable works were damaged and abandoned, while two others were apparently too large to fit in the getaway car and so were cut out of their frames

Schiff will be sentenced on one count of wire fraud early next year