Article: Finland Cancels Dali Art Exhibition

MANS HULDEN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-29-2004
Dateline: HELSINKI, Finland


Salvador Dali, the Spanish Surrealist artist, during a news conference at the Hotel St. Regis in New York on Feb. 25, 1971. (AP Photo)

An exhibition of Salvador Dali's art was canceled as police stepped in to confiscate the works, several of which they suspected to be counterfeit.

Collectors who had bought Dali's print works at the exhibition had suspected them to be fake and notified the police, which prompted an investigation, police said Tuesday.

"We also got many phone calls from a number of art connoisseurs who had been to the exhibition," said Jyrki Seppala at the Helsinki Police.

The Helsinki ...

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