A artwork that a Spanish man was planning to sell for $1.4 million was an early 20th-century forgery worth around $5,000 at best, not a Leonardo da Vinci painting, police say.
A artwork that a Spanish man was planning to sell for $1.4 million was an early 20th-century forgery worth around $5,000 at best, not a Leonardo da Vinci painting, police say. The sale of the fake painting was thwarted when customs officers at a French border post spotted that the export license had expired, the Guardian reports. They contacted police in Spain, who recovered the painting and sent it to experts in Madrid for analysis.
