Last week, after a remarkable trial a French judge sentenced a man called by French police “the most sophisticated and prolific master-forger in the history of European art” to one year in prison. “The extraordinary progress of the 57-year-old Geert Jan Jansen from the School of Fine Art in Amsterdam to a small-town courtroom 50 miles from Paris, is a story of two false names, seven fake bank accounts and up to 1,500 fake works of art.” – The Age (Melbourne) (Telegraph)