It would be an exciting novel if it weren't for a journalistic investigation.
The reader remains unsatisfied with this affair of old paintings placed under sequestration, but so far only “presumed” false by the courts.
The author, Vincent Noce, a former
Liberation worker
, took up and searched every facet of the “Ruffini affair”, named after an unscrupulous Italian art dealer.
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In recent years, picture rails from some international museums have been taken down, here a Cranach the Elder, there a Frans Hals, there again a Brueghel or a Bronzino;
originally because a mysterious crow suggested to the police that they may be fakes.
The only sure fact: before joining their current collections, these oils acquired from fortunes have passed through Ruffini at one time or another ...
Our colleague, brilliant investigator, has made a specialty of revealing the lucrative tricks of art, from the Hotel Drouot to the international art market.
Often with success.
Many have
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