Marie TOYEN
1902–1980, Czech Republic/France

Oil on canvas. Motif: Figure Composition, signed Toyen, 68x102 cm. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, in May 2008. The painting was provided by Swedish Pawn shop in Malmö, (loan value SEK 58.000). It had pledged by a private person . At the police questioning states that he can not remember from whom he bought the painting. 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 Sweden which revealed that it is not performed by the Czech artist Marie Cerminovas Toyen. The district court's decision. Signature forgery and aggravated fraud. The painting has not been conducted by Marie Toyen nor signed by him.