Art fraudster jailed for trying to sell 15 forgeries at Madrid auction house

Fake works linked to Guillermo CT include pieces allegedly by Munch, Lichtenstein, Chillida and Guerrero

A Spanish court has sentenced an art collector and fraudster to four years in prison for trying to sell 15 fake works, including a forged Edvard Munch print and a copy of Roy Lichtenstein’s famous Whaam! diptych, at a Madrid auction house.

The audiencia provincial in Madrid heard that the defendant, named as Guillermo CT, signed a contract with the Setdart auction house in the capital in January 2018 to sell 16 works, including seven by the late Spanish sculptor and engraver Eduardo Chillida, a Munch lithograph, two Lichtensteins, four lithographs by José Guerrero and one lithograph by Saul Steinberg.