ROME — Italy’s art police on Wednesday seized 21 artworks purportedly by Salvador Dali on suspicion they were forgeries, after being tipped off by the Surrealist’s foundation in Spain about suspected anomalies in the works.

The works were part of an exhibition, “Salvador Dali, tra arte e mito” (Salvador Dali, between art and myth”) that had been on show in Rome for the first half of the year and last week opened at Parma’s Palazzo Tarasconi.

Italy’s carabinieri art squad said while the show was open in Rome, it had received a report about suspected anomalies in some of the works from the Fundaciòn Gala – Salvador Dali. The artist had created the non-profit foundation in 1983 to “promote, foster, disseminate, enhance, and defend Dali’s world worldwide,” according to the foundation’s websi

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