#artforgeries — Public Fediverse posts
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Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?. “Scientists working with the nonprofit Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, for which I provide legal advice as an intellectual property attorney, have been collaborating for a decade on developing methods to do non-invasive testing of the works of Leonardo and other artists to assemble a ‘biome profile’ that would identify the artist.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/hyperallergic-can-an-artists-dna-help-detect-forgeries/
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Spotted a fair quantity of fake 1920s–30s wood engravings by contemporary forger Earl M. Washington (now in prison) at a shop in Dearborn, MI, priced at $50–125. He'd been at it for decades & first attracted negative attention from the Escher estate
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