The First Family of Art Forgery
Vocativ | Joel Stonington:
The Posin brothers are to art fakes what the Manning brothers are to football.
In 2001, Belgian police called curators at one of London’s top museums and told them that two J.M.W. Turner paintings valued at $35 million had been recovered in a sting operation. Lost since 1994, the Tate Gallery scrambled to get a professional down to Antwerp to see them.
Evgeni Posin and Michail Posin in their Posin Art Salon, surrounded by paintings they and their third brother, Semyon, painted. (Vocativ/Joel Stonington)
Sitting at home in Berlin a few days later, Evgeni Posin was reading an