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Is this the art crime of the century?
April 26, 2021
Giuliano Ruffini in Emilie-Romagne near Parma on February 05, 2020 . (Photo by Baptiste Giroudon/Paris Match via Getty Images)
A version of this story first appeared in the spring 2021 Artnet Intelligence Report, which you can download in full for free here.
“One name keeps cropping up in regard to people not to be trusted due to their links with forgeries that of Giuliano Ruffini.”
So begins a 3,000-word anonymous letter sent to the Paris art crime squad in 2014 that set in motion a chain of events destined to throw the Old Master market into turmoil.