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Steve Martin Took Loss on Fake Campendonk

May 31, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Der Spiegel reveals that Steve Martin got caught up in the now infamous Campendonk forgery ring and took a loss on a painting that is now labelled a fake:

According to investigators at Berlin’s state criminal police office (LKA), the art lover purchased what he believed to be a 1915 work by the German-Dutch modernist painter Heinrich Campendonk. He bought the colorful “Landschaft mit Pferden,” or “Landscape With Horses,” from the Paris gallery Cazeau-Béraudière for what would have been considered the bargain price of an estimated €700,000 (around $850,000 at the time) in July 2004.

German Art Forgery Scandal Reaches Hollywood (Der Spiegel)

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