Comment by gwbas1c

A month or two I listened to a podcast about stolen art. To summarize:

1: The stolen art sits around for a LONG TIME.

2: The provenance (papers) is forged

3: The buyer usually doesn't look too closely. They're either willing to fool themselves, gullible, or otherwise should know better.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-case-of-the-4-million-g...