{"id":30894,"date":"2018-11-02T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2024-03-26T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:36:36","slug":"forgeries-one-artist-did-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/11\/forgeries-one-artist-did-all-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgeries &#8211; One Artist Did All Of Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week\u00a0Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen, 46, and Reijo Pollari, 75, art dealers from Finland, <em>were each found guilty of 30 charges of aggravated fraud, and sentenced to four and five years\u2019 imprisonment respectively. A further eight people were also found guilty and sentenced to up to three years in jail<\/em>.\u00a0 In addition, the two dealers were ordered to pay 13M Euros.<\/p>\n<p>What is amazing to me is that according to the article, some 220 works handled by the dealers were sent to Finland&#8217;s National Gallery for inspection and verification.\u00a0 Most of them were found to be forgeries &#8230; and all were done by one artist &#8211; Veli Seppa.\u00a0 That must one very talented individual since the artists he forged spanned a long period of time and styles &#8211; Schjerfbeck, Edelfeldt, Leger, Monet, Matisse, Renoir, and many others.\u00a0 Was he really that talented, or were the buyers just not knowledgeable enough?<\/p>\n<p>Like I have always said: The art world is a jungle. You need to find the right guide before you become someone&#8217;s next meal.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dunyanews.tv\/en\/WeirdNews\/464605-Finnish-couple-jailed-over-13-million-euro-art-forgery-scam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finnish couple jailed over 13m euro art forgery scam<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week\u00a0Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen, 46, and Reijo Pollari, 75, art dealers from Finland, were each found guilty of 30 charges of aggravated fraud, and sentenced to four and five years\u2019 imprisonment respectively. A further eight people were also found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/11\/forgeries-one-artist-did-all-of-them\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[269,386,32],"class_list":["post-30894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-legal-matters","tag-tales-from-the-dark-side","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>Forgeries - One Artist Did All Of Them? - Rehs Galleries<\/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\/11\/forgeries-one-artist-did-all-of-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forgeries - One Artist Did All Of Them?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Earlier this week\u00a0Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen, 46, and Reijo Pollari, 75, art dealers from Finland, were each found guilty of 30 charges of aggravated fraud, and sentenced to four and five years\u2019 imprisonment respectively. 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