The owner of an Italian auction house has been arrested for selling fake lithographs on the Italian television shopping channel Telemarket - London - Brief Article

Art Business News, May, 2002

* The owner of an Italian auction house has been arrested for selling fake lithographs on the Italian television shopping channel Telemarket. Giorgio Corbelli, owner of Semenzato, has been accused of attempting to sell thousands of forged works by contemporary artists Michele Cascella, Giorgio de Chirico, Giuseppe Migneco and Marlo Schifano.

However, the Italian Undersecretary for Culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, has come to his defense. "A fake has to be a Caravaggio, a Tiepolo or some antique. A fake lithograph is conceptually impossible because it already is a fake in that it is not an original but a duplicate," he said.