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Art fraud is certainly not a new phenomenon. Art fraudsters have operated through history, probably with the same basic criminal intent and method as they do today. Over the years, our attitude to collecting art has changed, as has our attitude to fraud. Police investigative methods have evolved, but criminals have been quick to respond, both to trends in the market and to police methods of identifying “a wrong one.”
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Rapley, V. (2016). The Police Investigation of Art Fraud. In: Charney, N. (eds) Art Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-40757-3_4
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