Sotheby's Drags Christie's Into Fight Over Fake Old Master
- Auction house wants help proving $11 million painting is fake
- Sotheby’s is suing the art gallery that owned the work
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Sotheby’s has dragged rival auction house Christie’s into a fight over the sale of an $11 million Old Master painting it says is a fake.
Ahead of a London trial next year, Sotheby’s wants to prove that art specialists at Christie’s had prior doubts about a work attributed to Dutch Golden Age artist Frans Hals, which the firm itself later concluded was a forgery.