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Forgeries have got so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2018

Forgeries are also common; a Dutch journalist recently had one made in the name of his prime minister.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2015

Forgeries invariably raise knotty questions about the value of art and faith in the market, and fuel cynicism about art experts.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2013

In 2007 the agency lent some to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., for its exhibition “Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception.”

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2012

Forgeries and tracings made by skilful imitators are the most difficult of detection, as the internal evidence of forgery by tracing is mostly absent.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell