Mexico trove of 1,200 Kahlo works all frauds: experts

An image of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is seen at the Frida Kahlo Museum in
Coyoacan, …

Experts said Thursday that a trove of 1,200 art works displayed at prominent
Mexican gallery as the work of famed artist Frida Kahlo are forgeries.
The works, owned by the art dealer Carlos Noyola and his wife, had been on exhibit
at a gallery in San Miguel Allende in central Mexico.

But experts said there was no chance that the works could be genuine.
"The works in question are not authentic," Hilda Trujillo, director of the Frida
Kahlo museum, told AFP.

"All of the pieces are signed exactly the same way, while Frida used different
signatures," she said.

"Nowhere is this trove of works documented -- much less a reserve of this size,"
said Carlos Phillips Olmedo, another expert affiliated with the Kahlo Museum.
The couple who owns the pieces, which include oil paintings, sketches, letters and
other documents, claim to have purchased them in 2005.

Law enforcement officials said no criminal charges had been filed against the
couple, because they are alleged simply to have claimed that the works were by
Kahlo, and not to have actually created the forgeries.

Frida Kahlo, who lived from 1907 to 1954, is best known for her haunting self
portraits, but she also celebrated women and indigenous traditions in her
surrealistic paintings.

Source Yuri Cortez

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