Sam VANNI
1908–1992, Finland
Verdict of guilty
6070/R/153623/02/TVP/1
Oil on board, composition, signed "S. Vanni -52". Ostensibly picturing a genuine painting by the Finnish artist Sam Vanni. The painting is included in one of the many cases of fraud, the police seized in the early 1990s in Finland. After examination of expertsand the judgment was explained that this painting was not genuine. It was a forgery.