Oscar Arnold WERGELAND
1844–1910, Norway
1877
Signature proven counterfeit
Details
Verdict of guilty
01KB-76141-00606-86. (PHM 1350.31.20a)
Oil on canvas, oriental city scene, signed "Osc. Wergeland", 48x32 cm. Ostensibly picturing a genuine painting by the Norwegian artist Oscar Arnold Wergeland. The painting is included in one of the many cases of fraud, police seized during the late 1990s in Denmark. After the expert investigation and they explained that this painting was not genuine. It was a forgery.
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine