假畫橫行! 法國一博物館畫作多爲贗品!
More than half the paintings owned by a southern French museum are worthless fakes, and authorities fear more forgeries may be on display at other public galleries.
法國南部一家博物院裏的超過半數的畫作並非真跡，有關部門擔心更多贗品正在其他的公共美術館展出。The small museum in Elne, dedicated to local artist Etienne Terrus, a contemporary of Henri Matisse, learned that 82 of its 140 works are fakes after art historian Eric Forcadea raised the alarm.
這家位於埃爾恩的小型博物院專門展出和亨利·馬蒂斯同期的當地藝術家艾迪恩·泰呂的作品。近日，在歷史學家埃裏克·福爾卡達提出質疑後，這家博物院才發現其140幅作品中的82幅爲贗品。Forcadea noticed while helping to prepare an exhibit that some of the paintings attributed to the Terrus featured buildings built after his 1922 death.
福爾卡達在幫助準備一個展覽的過程中發現，一些所謂泰呂作品中出現的建築的始建時間竟然是在1922年以後，而泰呂在1922年已去世。
The state-owned Terrus Museum had a committee of experts inspect the works and concluded that many were not been painted by the Elne-born artist.
這家國立的泰呂博物館，隨後組織了一個專家委員會來檢查這些作品，最後證實許多作品並不是由這位在埃爾恩出生的藝術家創作的。Roughly $170,000 was paid for the phony oil paintings, watercolors and drawings over the past few decades.
在過去的幾十年裏，大約共有17萬美元的資金花在了這些僞造的油畫、水彩畫和繪畫上面。"It's a catastrophe," Yves Barniol, the mayor of Elne told The Telegrah. "I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, who saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It's intolerable and I hope we find those responsible."
埃爾恩市的市長伊夫·巴尼爾向《電訊報》透露：“這是一場大災難。我站在進館參觀的所有人的角度上思考，他們看到了僞造的藝術品，卻支付了入館費。這是無法容忍的，我希望我們能找到那些應負責任的人。”Barriol said the city recently invested $365,000 refurbishing the museum. "We will continue to promote local art."
巴尼爾表示，這座城市最近投資了36.5萬美元來翻修這座博物館。“我們會繼續推廣當地的藝術。”
