Photo Gallery The Great Giacometti Sculpture Fraud
A self-proclaimed count and his accomplices spent years selling fake sculptures which they untruthfully claimed had been made by famous artist Alberto Giacometti. Now the phony count is facing a spell in prison -- but the factory which made the forgeries has never been found.
'L'Homme qui marche I', a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London in 2010 for the equivalent of 74 million.
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It was jaw-dropping sums like that which made Giacometti such a target for fraudsters. This is a collection of fake Giacometti sculptures recovered in Mainz.
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Horst Haug from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Baden-Württemberg displays a fake Giacometti sculpture in 2009.
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A journalist at an exhibition in Wolfsburg considers different sculptures which actually were created by the Swiss artist.
Foto: dpa Picture-Alliance / Jochen L??bke/ picture alliance / dpa
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