The Faun. Work found to be a forgery

CHICAGO.-The Art Institute of Chicago has recently concluded that The Faun, a sculpture acquired by the museum in 1997 as a work by Paul Gauguin, is a creative, well researched forgery of a lost work by the artist produced by the recently sentenced Greenhalgh family from Bolton, England.

The Faun was purchased by the museum from a private dealer who had purchased the work at auction at Sotheby’s in 1994. The documentation related to the work’s chain of ownership, or provenance, was accepted by both Sotheby’s and the private dealer.

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