In November 2008, Heritage Auction House in Dallas, USA, introduced its catalog of fake masterpieces. Collection of rare art and format of the paintings, with a rather low estimates, just speaks for itself. Mashkov, Shukhaiev, Yakovlev, Kliun, Rodchenko, Goncharova ... List goes on and on. In 2007, the same auction sold phony Cluny, Rodchenko, Exter. (If than a collection of Ivan Kulbin!)
Here's one example of how the guys worked with Alexander Yakovlev.
Left - the original, located in a private collection in Paris.
Right - a fake version of a la ...
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