{"id":55475,"date":"2025-10-01T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:09:10","slug":"italian-police-raid-salvador-dali-exhibition-say-works-on-display-were-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55475\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian police raid Salvador Dali exhibition, say works on display were fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carabinieri officers hold one of the 21 artworks presumed to be inauthentic and falsely attributed to Salvador Dali, seized during an exhibition in Parma. Carabinieri\/Handout via REUTERS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/caa66553-a596-4de5-a0e3-5dfda385e64b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Carabinieri officers hold one of the 21 artworks presumed to be inauthentic and falsely attributed to Salvador Dali, seized during an exhibition in Parma. Carabinieri\/Handout via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Italy&#8217;s art heritage police said on Wednesday they raided a Salvador Dali exhibition and seized 21 works attributed to the famous Spanish surrealist painter that are presumed to be forgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Officers took tapestries, drawings, engravings and various objects from the &#8220;Salvador Dali: Between art and Myth&#8221; show which opened last week in the northern city of Parma, the Carabinieri said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Palazzo Tarasconi, the venue hosting the Parma exhibition, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The ticketing office said the exhibition would continue despite the seizures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Police said they acted on suspicions first raised by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation &#8211; the body tasked with protecting the artist&#8217;s legacy &#8211; and spotted &#8220;anomalies&#8221; while the artworks were on display in Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The exhibition, comprising around 80 artworks, ran in the Italian capital from January to July. It reopened in Parma on September 27, and was scheduled to continue until February 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Carabinieri stressed that the artworks were presumed fake on the basis of preliminary investigations, and that the presumption of innocence would apply until a final verdict is reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Italy&#8217;s Carabinieri police has specialised units working on stolen or forged art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">They said last year they had uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fakes attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Dali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carabinieri officers hold one of the 21 artworks presumed to be inauthentic and falsely attributed to Salvador Dali,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-55475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}