Overview

• Rome’s Carabinieri cultural-heritage unit carried out a judge-approved seizure at Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma on October 1.
• The 21 pieces, attributed to Salvador Dalí, include tapestries, drawings, engravings and various objects now deemed presumptively non-authentic.
• Prosecutors in Rome obtained the decree through the department handling widespread and serious crime as part of a criminal inquiry.
• Checks began after anomalies were noted at an earlier Rome show with the same title and after a formal alert from the Fundación Gala–Salvador Dalí.
• The exhibition, organized by Navigare srl with works loaned from private collections in Italy and Belgium, is under investigation as the organizer pledges full cooperation and a consumer group plans to seek refunds if falsity is confirmed.