NEW YORK SENSATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 30, 2 June 1923, Page 5

NEW YORK SENSATION

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM FRAUDULENT ART TREASURES. Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10 a.m.) New York, May 31. A great sensation has been eauiod in art. circles hero by a cabled report from Paris that the important group of Gothic statuary anj antiques in New York's famous Metropolitan Museum, which contains one of the noted art collections of the world, is fraudulent. This followed upon a controversy occurring in Paris when it was related that groups of statuary in The Louvre wore also declared to be spurious. The charges in both cases have been made by M. L. Comellon, French critic. Many millions of dollars were spent for the Metropolitan's objects, which arc now questioned. Such a noted world art critic as Sir Joseph Duveen confirmed the. charges, declaring that probably onefifth of the Metropolitan’s Gothic antiques wore doctored by French art fakers. The officials of the museum, while scouting the idea that they were cheated, intimate that they will have the objects re-examined.