By Urmee Khan
Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009

Artist John Myatt will have some of his work featured at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Photo: REX FEATURES

The exhibition, curated by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Art and Antiques
Unit, will include confiscated works by Shaun Greenhalgh, the forger who
executed “masterpieces” such as paintings purporting to be the
work of the L S Lowry and statue of The Egyptian Amarna Princess.

The alabaster carved figure, created in Bolton in 2003, was sold for £440,000
before it was revealed as a fake.

The V&A will also show forgeries of work by the artist John Myatt, who
copied 20th century artists such as Marc Chagall and faked Victoria
paintings by Robert Thwaites, who was jailed in 2006.

They will form part of an exhibition to raise awareness about fraud by the
Metropolitan Police Service’s Art and Antiques Unit, who will also showcase
some of the investigative methods involved in detecting and preventing the
increasingly sophisticated crime of art forgery.

Det Sgt Vernon Rapley, from the unit, said: “We need to raise awareness of
fakes and forgeries and the issues surrounding it to try to prevent crime in
the future.

“Hopefully, by making people more aware of the dangers they face and the
methods used, people will be able to protect against it.”

The
Metropolitan Police Service’s Investigation of Fakes and Forgeries free
exhibition which will open at the Victoria and Albert Museum on January 23–
7 February 2010.

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