An estimated $350000 worth of silk screen prints hanging in film commerce were discovered to be replaced with fakes after one was taken to be reframed Nine original Andy Warhol prints were quietly stolen from a Los Angeles film commerce and replaced with fakes in an art heist that went undetected for years,police and court documents showed on Thursday. The silk screen prints worth an estimated $350000 are from the artist’s 1983 series Endangered Species and his 1980 Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, according to a police report submitted to Los Angeles superior court as part of a search warrant affidavit.
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Source: theguardian.com