In 2020, Jos Mestdach (73), an art lover from Moregem, bought a painting in a Ghent auction house. There is soon great uncertainty about the painter, a certain Jos Pauwels. For three years, the former journalist stalked the world’s largest auction houses, which turned out to be trading Jos Pauwelsen for many thousands of pounds and dollars. Are they knowingly selling fake art, brushed off by zealous copyists in China?
Annick De Wit
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