In June 2013 German police broke up a major faking ring and seized 1,000 paintings purported to be by the major Russian avant garde artists, including Kandinsky, Malevich, Exter, Popova and the most expensive female artist at auction, Natalia Goncharova.
In this document, the International Confederation of Antique & Art Dealers of Russian and the CIS (ICAAD) together with leading Russian specialists, museum directors and collectors wish to bring the attention of the wider public this systematic faking of work by Goncharova and to protect her legacy.
