Italian officials said they had dismantled a Europe-wide network of forgers and dealers selling works purported to be by A-list artists, mostly through auction houses.

Italian authorities have cracked a network of art forgers who made and sold fake works by Warhol, Banksy, Picasso and others.

Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols ... Wassily Kandinsky, Henry Moore and Gustav Klimt. AP Photo/Italian Culture Ministry, HOGP Fake modern and contemporary artworks that were sized by police are show ...

Italian authorities say forgers tried to sell fake Picasso, Modiglianis and others with help of complicit auction houses.

The fake artworks have been attributed to more than 30 famed artists and could have done 200 million euros in economic damage to the art industry. | ITV National News

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art, including Banksy, Pablo Picasso,

Italian police say they have exposed a vast forgery network operating across Europe, dealing in counterfeit artworks attributed to some of the most celebrated artists of the modern and contemporary eras.

Over 2,100 pieces of forged artwork were recovered, which were supposedly by Banksy, Salvador Dalí, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miró, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso, and were potentially worth about €200m (£165m).