21 Dalí works seized in Parma over suspected forgeries

Italian police seized 21 artworks attributed to Salvador Dalí from a monographic exhibition in Parma on Wednesday after experts raised suspicions the works may be forgeries. The seizure, carried out by the Carabinieri art crime unit with a judge's warrant, removed items from the show Dalí, Between Art and Myth at Palazzo Tarasconi, which reopened in Parma on September 27 after a run in Rome earlier this year.

Authorities said the seized items comprise 21 pieces that investigators described as 18 lithographs and three drawings. The works were part of an approximately 80-piece exhibition of drawings, engravings and tapestries that had been displayed in Rome from January to July and was scheduled to remain in Parma into February. Police emphasized the presumption of innocence and said the items are presumed counterfeit on the basis of preliminary inquiries while the probe continues.

Investigators acted after the Gala‑Salvador Dalí Foundation in Figueres, the organization charged with protecting the artist's legacy, alerted Italian authorities to anomalies in cataloged works. The foundation told prosecutors it had not been consulted about the exhibition and reported perplexity over...