Crossroads Roundup: A Fake Da Vinci, a Major Stonehenge Discovery, and Yayoi Kusama
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An art dealer tried to sell a fake Leonardo da Vinci for $1.4 million.
(The clue should have been that someone priced a “da Vinci” at that amount.)
After a two-year investigation, an unidentified Spanish art dealer in his forties has been arrested for trying to sell a fake Leonardo da Vinci painting to a buyer in Italy. French customs officers at the Modane border uncovered his plot after seizing the painting from his vehicle.