art forgery theme
The crime of creating and peddling falsely accredited artwork is featured. For example, a skilled painter may copy an old masterpiece, take pains to make it look aged, and then sell it under the pretense that it is the original.
4 total · 3 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh2x26 | major | The big reveal of the story is that the struggling painter James' disgruntlement toward the municipal authorities was a diversion from the true purpose of him and his accomplices: replace five museum paintings with his forgeries and make off the the originals without anybody being the wiser. |
| talesoftheunexpected3x02 | major | Hazel was forging and selling John Constable paintings. |
| talesoftheunexpected5x17 | major | Bernice forged copies of a masterpiece and, together with her lover Parnell, sold them to various unscrupulous men. |
| sherlock1x03 | minor | Sherlock exposed a painting valued at 30 million pounds as a fake. |