Overview

• Two forged Suite Vollard prints sold at a Stuttgart auction house were later confiscated—one at an art dealership in Worms and the other in Austria.
• Baden-Württemberg police intercepted two additional suspect prints before they reached the market.
• All seven seized graphics were authenticated as counterfeit through collaboration with the Picasso Museum Münster.
• State criminal police in Baden-Württemberg and Berlin have conducted a multiyear investigation into the ring led by an Italian national.
• Italy’s Carabinieri cultural heritage protection unit executed legal measures against the prime suspect in Rome in early July and inquiries continue.