Art lovers shocked in Turkey

Turkey today shocked art lovers who had travelled from as far as Japan to see Picasso paintings at a national museum. Four of the five works are fakes, they admitted.

Turkey today shocked art lovers who had travelled from as far as Japan to see Picasso paintings at a national museum. Four of the five works are fakes, they admitted.

The Paris-based Picasso Administration - run by the artist’s son Claude Ruiz-Picasso - examined photographs of the paintings and certified them to be fakes, Turkey’s Ministry of Culture said.

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