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Crime
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The most serious scandal in modern art: the 2017 Genoa Modigliani affair. An exhibition was shut down, with prosecutors seizing 21 of 60 works, suspected as forgeries. The case sent tremors through the art world, reviving the persistent ghost of fakery that haunts experts and auction houses.
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