Carabinieri seize 21 artworks from Salvador Dalì show in Parma amid authenticity doubts | Salvador Dalí
On Tuesday, Italy’s art squad seized 21 works of art from a large exhibition dedicated to the suspicion of the Spanish Surrealist by Salvador Dalì in Parma.
The show between Art and MIT, the Dalì, was open for only a few days. Palazzo Tarasconi Before seizing alleged false studies, including police, drawings, carpets and engravings.
Doubts about their originality appeared in January when Carabinieri Art Team’s Roman unit was organized in the Roman unit of the exhibition when the Museo Storico Della Fanteria was organized in a routine control of the exhibition.
“During the examination, the genre we usually did in the museums, something was wrong,” he said. “We realized that only lithographs, posters and drawings were exhibited by Dalì, along with a few sculptures and other objects, but there was no picture or anything important.
The squad increased his doubts with the Figueres-based Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation of Catalonia, which revealed that there was no contact with the organizers.
Poglio said: “We found it absolutely strange, because if you want to organize an exhibition of an artist’s works, especially those who are very important, you cannot pass through the foundation that manages the collection.”
The police sent photographs of the works of art works that were allegedly attributed to Dalí, who died in 1989, to the foundation that sent an expert team to Rome, who acknowledged that “something was not collected”.
“They were also suspected of uncertainties, and therefore the Roman prosecutors ordered the seizure of 21 works, Pog Poglio said. Now we will continue the necessary technical and scientific investigations to determine whether the works are authentic. “
Poglio stressed that the investigation is in the forefront of the investigation and that no one has been wrong.
Italy’s art police regularly discuss the cases of reproduced work sold or exhibited by the world’s famous artists.
“We see an important fake assets in the market, especially in contemporary art, Pog said Poglio. “A global phenomenon.”
In February, the police in Rome discovered a secret workshop where Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt were produced before they were sold online.
The discovery came a few months after the Italian police dismantled a European fraud network, which was suspected of producing copies of artists such as Banksy, Picasso, Andy Warhol and Gustav Klimt.
Generally, forgery occurs only when exhibiting in leading museums.
“Most of them are moving in good faith, Pog said Poglio,” behind the exhibitions. ” “However, we must always be careful – those responsible for scientific cure should always make comprehensive controls on originality before showing the works.”
