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| | Russians seeking an art heritage find an old adage: Buyer beware - The Boston Globe |
 | | Vladimir Petrov, a curator at the state-run Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, says he believes forgers have snapped up at least 120 paintings by minor 19th-century West European landscape artists at auction houses in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands, paying $1,000 to $20,000 apiece for them. |
 | | Using auction catalogues, Petrov, a specialist on 19th-century Russian art, has compiled a binder of before and after images of paintings as they were sold in Western Europe and what they became in Moscow. |
 | | Tairov worries that Petrov's hunt for fakes has become so relentless he is casting doubt on legitimate work. |
| www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/02/05/russians_seeking_an_art_heritage_find_an_old_adage_buyer_beware?mode=PF (1046 words) |
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