August 7, 2014

In Springfield, USA opened an exhibition of masterpieces by well-known forgers. This news was even announced by the Russian television. The reason for that might be that Russian collectors are often targeted by forgers.
It seems that the exhibition has an outstanding success, visitors are interested in this topic. The exhibition tells about forgers' fates, methods of forgery and means of forgeries reaching collections of various museums and collectors.
The amount of forgeries on the art market is really striking. The whole exhibition is certainly serves an educational and commercial purpose well. It also shows the rising danger for collection-creating institutions, collectors and investors. Probably intentionally, but Han van Meegeren succeeded to fool the experts with his Vermeers, and in the Czech Republic some „experts" have marked fakes as originals for many times, and they keep producing new findings. How is it possible? The reason might be that the state doesn't have the power to do something with that and professionals lack an interest in changing it.