Forgeries of paintings of Vladimir Schools

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In Moscow, sent to court a criminal case of forgeries of paintings by Vladimir Yukina.


Completed an investigation and sent to court a criminal case of fraud associated with the paintings of famous Russian artists of the XX century, Vladimir Yukina, said BaltInfo Irina Raspopova, a spokesman for the Internal Affairs Directorate of Zelenograd administrative district of Moscow.

The investigation revealed that between March 2008 and April 2009, 57-year-old Vladimir Borisov Igolkin hired unknown artists, who wrote the 18 paintings in the style inherent in a well-known Soviet and Russian landscape painter Vladimir Yukina. Then the attacker had conspired with the stepson of the artist - 52-year-old Alexei Nikitin. He managed to convince his mother that the works are genuine, and certify it before coming out of Moscow's customers. The woman, who at that time had turned 84 years old, as well, according to investigators, a victim of fraud.

Thus, 18 fake paintings were sold to two businessmen, who in the amount paid for them more than nine million rubles.

"A statement of fraud addressed one of the residents in Zelenograd, which acquired the paintings - told Irina Raspopova. - A woman questioned the authenticity of the paintings and asked independent experts, who confirmed that the data acquired by its pictures are fake. In July 2009, on this fact at the Internal Affairs of the SU Zelenograd Moscow was prosecuted Part 4, Art. 159 Criminal Code (fraud on a large scale).

In the course of search operations revealed that in the city of Vladimir organized crime group, the manufacture of fake paintings by famous artists "Vladimir" school of painting and carrying out their sale to collectors. As a result of events in Vladimir, in August 2009, the capital operatives detained members of this group has repeatedly convicted of Boris Igolkina and Alexei Nikitin.

According to the official representative of ATC Zelenograd district of Moscow, the artist's personality, faked paintings, set and could not - the case against them, Separated, and maintained their active search.

Vladimir Yakovlevich Yukin (09/06/1920 - 10/07/2000) - Soviet painter, one of the largest landscape of the XX century. Member of the Union of Artists, one of the founders of a group of artists "Vladimir school of landscape painting." His works are in museums and private collections in Russia and many countries around the world. He participated in most major national exhibitions of the second half of XX century. Foreign price auctions paintings by Vladimir Yukina starts with 50 thousand dollars.

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