The New Jersey residents, who face up to 20 years in prison, commissioned an artist in Poland to create the fakes. They got special penalties for forging paintings by Native American artists The duo sold this forgery of an artwork by Native American and Black artist Richard Mayhew for $160,000. U.S. Department of Justice A father-daughter duo living in New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court this week to operating a prolific scheme commissioning and selling forgeries they falsely credited to some of the most recognizable names in the art world. Between 2020 and 2025, Erwin Bankowski, 50, and Karolina Bankowska, 26, sold more than 200 artworks wrongly attributed to the likes of Andy Warhol, Banksy and Pablo Picasso to auction houses and galleries across the United States, taking in roughly $2 million. The pair went to great lengths to falsify the provenance of the forgeries and muddy dealers’ attempts to verify the paintings’ pasts.…