Salvador Dali - Albaretto Family Investigation

In 2000 I confiscated about 65 lithographs and etchings coming from Belgium. We found the original bills signed by Mara Albaretto from Turin and I have copies of them here. We found bills for example, one etching or one lithograph, great ones for about 1000 Euro, sold and bought in the years 1999 and 2000. I think it's impossible to buy an original Dali lithograph, hand signed in pencil and numbered, for 1000 Euro.

After two years waiting for German justice we contacted Italian justice and they ignored our coming for over two years. Then we went to Torino and had a look in the Albaretto's house. We found only a few printed works. I have the contracts they said were signed between them and Dali here. We have examined them and the works we had found in Freiburg and in Belgium, all coming from the Albarettos. All the works we examined are not original lithographs, are not original etchings. It's commercial industrial printing. It's not handmade.

We also looked at the contracts and proved that a lot of contracts are written with typewriters which were made years after the date on the contracts.

We have scientific proofs. For the typewriters we have proofs from the scientific investigation from the police. For the printed works, we have reports from the university and from art printers all saying that these are not original works but were printed commercially. It's impossible to print these works on a normal metal plate or normal stone for lithograph or for etching because they would have had to be put through a printing press.

I am happy to say that in Germany there are no more of these false works today. All the works are sold to France or to the USA. I have heard that through Park West Gallery the ships going to the Caribbean and other places may be selling these works.