A French art museum correct realized half of of its work are fraudulent

‘Collioure in the
Pyrenees’ by Étienne Terrus
Musée
Terrus

• An art gallery in France has realized that half of of
  its collection is fraudulent.
• The Terrus museum in Elne France, dedicated to the
  works of Étienne Terrus, stumbled on eighty two works from its collection had
  been incorrectly attributed to the artist.
• The mayor of the Pyrenees town known as the pronounce « a
  catastrophe ».

A French museum dedicated to the works of painter Etienne Terrus
has realized a valuable replace of work thought to be
his had been fakes.

The Terrus museum in Elne, in the south of France, realized eighty two works from its collection
had been incorrectly attributed to the artist.

In step with the BBC, greater than half of of the collection was fraudulent
– dwindling in label from their popular prince of £a hundred and forty,000.

Workers at the museum said they had been no longer conscious of the forgeries
till a visiting art historian informed them.

Musée Terrus in Elne,
France.
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The collection of paintings, drawings and watercolours was constructed
over a two-decade interval. The shapely news announced on Friday
because the museum opened following a renovation.

In an interview on Friday, Yves Bariol, mayor of the Pyrenees
town, known as the pronounce « a catastrophe » and apologised to these
who had beforehand visited the museum.

Native police are investigating the case, which they order
would possibly per chance well per chance per chance affect other regional artists.

Terrus was born in 1857 and died in 1922 in Elne. He was a shut
perfect friend of the painter Henri Matisse.