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Tokushima Museum Closes 25-Year Case on Fake Cubist

12/2/2025

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  • The Tokushima Modern Art Museum in Japan closed a 25-year fraud case after confirming a fake Cubist painting by Wolfgang Beltracchi, one of four forgeries.
  • Wolfgang Beltracchi is a convicted forger known for imitating over 100 artists.
  • The museum bought in the late 1990s a work it believed genuine by Jean Metzinger, but it was Beltracchi's fake.
  • Beltracchi has claimed many of his forgeries remain undiscovered.