Italy\u2019s art police on Wednesday seized 21 artworks purportedly by Salvador Dal\u00ed on suspicion they were forgeries, after being tipped off by the Surrealist’s foundation in Spain about suspected anomalies in the works.<\/p>\n
The works were part of an exhibition, “Salvador Dal\u00ed, tra arte e mito” (“Salvador Dal\u00ed, between art and myth”) that had been on show in Rome for the first half of the year and last week opened at Parma\u2019s Palazzo Tarasconi.<\/p>\n
Italy\u2019s carabinieri art squad said while the show was open in Rome, it had received a report about suspected anomalies in some of the works from the Fundaci\u00f2n Gala – Salvador Dal\u00ed. The artist had created the non-profit foundation in 1983 to “promote, foster, disseminate, enhance, and defend Dal\u00ed\u2019s world worldwide”, according to the foundation\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning with a judge\u2019s warrant, the police seized 21 works from the Parma museum, including tapestries, drawings and engravings. Police stressed that the investigation was continuing.<\/p>\n
With his whimsical creations, Dal\u00ed, is among the most-forged artists along with Pablo Picasso and Amadeo Modigliani, according to ArtNews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s art police on Wednesday seized 21 artworks purportedly by Salvador Dal\u00ed on suspicion they were forgeries, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,2567,499,500,67,501,156,111,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-56236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}