A sculpture of a half-man, half-goat, attributed to impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, has been revealed as a forgery created by a British artist.
The Art Institute of Chicago reportedly paid $125,000 (£61,225) for The Faun sculpture in 1997 and has since given it pride of place at the museum.
But directors were forced to admit that instead of being the work of the celebrated 19th artist, it was instead created by Shaun Greenhalgh, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, who was jailed last month for fraud.
The institute's director of public affairs, Eric Hogan, told the Chicago Tribune: "No one could think of any other instance in which anything like this happened here."
His mother, Olive, received a suspended sentence for fraud. His father, George, 84, will be sentenced later.
Last month, British police said the Greenhalgh family were behind "the most sustained and diverse" art forgery case ever.
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