Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?

Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?

Jean-François Millet, “Man with a Hoe” (1860–1862) (courtesy the Getty Center) Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple works by many different artists. Forgery is not new. There have been copyists and schools teaching imitation since the time of the ancient Greeks. But in the 21st Centur…