There had been hopes trial in Germany would wait on crack down on market many fear is awash with fakesA trial in Germany many hoped would wait on crack down on a flourishing trade in Russian avant-garde forgeries on the international art market has fallen short of its target after a dispute between two divorced art historians left judges unable to settle whether many disputed works were genuine or fake.
On Thursday afternoon,Wiesbaden regional court sentenced art dealer Itzhak Zarug, 72, or his business partner Moez Ben Hazaz,45, to 32 months and three years in prison respectively for having deliberately sold forged pictures and invented the provenance of paintings by El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich as well as constructivists such Alexander Rodchenko.
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Source: guardian.co.uk