Zoran Antonio MUSIC
1909–2005, Slovenia/Italy

Oil on canvas. Motif: Moonlight Landscape, signed Music, 80x100 cm. The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm, in May 2008. The painting had been submitted by Swedish Pawn shop in Malmo, loan value was 35,000 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 Sweden which revealed that it is not performed by the Slovenian/Italian artist Antonio Zoran Music. The district court's decision. Signature forgery and aggravated fraud. The painting has not been performed by Zoran Antonio Music nor signed by him.

Oil on board, cityscape, signed "MUSIC 1952" 70x54 cm. Ostensibly picturing a genuine oil painting by artist Zoran Music. The painting had been submitted to a major auction house in Stockholm where it was cataloged as a genuine painting, exclamation SEK 200000-250000 (ca. 21,000 to 22,000 EUR). The painting was sold for SEK 190,000 (ca. 20,000 EUR). The buyer showed the painting to the experts concluded that it was a forgery. He returned the painting to the auction house and got his money back. The painting was handed over to the police who carried out a precise examination which, among other things, revealed questionable documents that the painting would have been sold by a gallery in Copenhagen in 1958, and that the painting in 2006 was purchased by the current owner from a private individual for SEK 210,000 in order to be transmitted to Sotheby's for sales. Court: The painting is not genuine. It is a forgery and should be forfeited.