Emmanuel MANÉ-KATZ
1894–1962, Ukraine/Israel/France

Watercolour. Motif: Landscape with houses and figures, signed Mané-Katz, 38x33 cm. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, May 2008. The painting was submitted by a Swedish Pawn shop in Malmo, loan value 32,500 SEK. It had pledged by a private person. At the police questioning states that he bought the painting by a private family in Malmö, Sweden. He states further that he is self-taught art expert since many years and he is now a partner in an antique shop in Malmö, Sweden. The painting has gone through a technical examination by Moderna Museet in Stockholm, which revealed that it is not performed by the Ukrainian artist Emmanuel Mané-Katz. The district court's decision. Signature forgery and aggravated fraud. The painting has not been conducted by Emmanuel Mané-Katz nor signed by him.