{"id":29910,"date":"2018-04-29T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=29910"},"modified":"2023-12-28T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T05:58:00","slug":"shocking-more-than-half-are-no-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/04\/shocking-more-than-half-are-no-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking &#8230; More Than Half Are No Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29912\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/etienne-terrus.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29912\" class=\"wp-image-29912\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/etienne-terrus-300x187.jpeg\" alt=\"etienne-terrus-300x187\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/etienne-terrus-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/etienne-terrus-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/etienne-terrus-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/etienne-terrus.jpeg 1418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00c9tienne Terrus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am blown away by this one.\u00a0 According to recent reports, more than half of the paintings in the Terrus Museum, a state-owned French museum in Elne, are fake. Now, maybe I could understand if one or two forgeries slipped through, but 82 of the 140?\u00a0 How is that possible?<\/p>\n<p>The museum was set up to showcase the work of\u00a0\u00c9tienne Terrus (1857-1922) &#8212; who was born and spent most of his life, in Elne.\u00a0 What is even more amazing is that the works were purchased over many years with municipal funds, to the tune of \u00a3140,000, and through donations.<\/p>\n<p>The police have confiscated all of the phony works and are now beginning an investigation to uncover the forgers and dealers involved.\u00a0 This should be very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/newslondon\/french-museum-disaster-as-gallery-dedicated-to-etienne-terrus-discovers-half-its-art-collection-is-fake\/ar-AAwt3WN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>French Museum &#8216;disaster&#8217; as gallery dedicated to Etienne Terrus discovers half its art collection is fake<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/04\/28\/french-museum-discovers-half-collection-fakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am blown away by this one.\u00a0 According to recent reports, more than half of the paintings in the Terrus Museum, a state-owned French museum in Elne, are fake. Now, maybe I could understand if one or two forgeries slipped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/04\/shocking-more-than-half-are-no-good\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,9,32],"class_list":["post-29910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shocking More Than Half Are No Good!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/04\/shocking-more-than-half-are-no-good\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shocking ... 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