8 years ago
Is that a da Vinci before me? No, it's Sally from the Co-op
A Leonardo da Vinci drawing believed to be worth £100 million is actually a picture of “Sally from the Co-op” in Bolton, one of Britain’s most notorious art forgers has claimed. The “La Bella Principessa” purports to be portrait of a young woman possibly from the court of Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, in the 1490s. But Shaun Greenhalgh claims he drew the picture in 1978 based on a “bossy” shop assistant he worked with his local Co-op store in the north west town.
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