Another fake old master

new york - A so-called 16th-century Italian painting that some years ago was sold at Sotheby's in New York, turns out to be fake. Further investigation revealed that the painting contains pigments that only invented in the 20th century, according to the New York Times and other media Amerikaane.

It is a painting of a saint which it was assumed that it or the immediate vicinity of the Italian artist Parmigianino (1503-1540) and was sold for 842 500 dollars. Sotheby's was later further infomation about the painting and began to doubt. The early work back for further investigation. Sotheby's gives back to the buyer money and hopes to one and other stories on the inserter of time.

A portrait of a man who by Sotheby's in Britain as a work of Frans Hals was sold showed even a fake late last year. It was also found to contain too young material. And was previously discovered that a Lucas Cranach possibly was not the work of this master.