Modigliani is one of those artists who forgers love to copy.

Enter Carlo Pepi, the Italian accountant turned self-taught art expert. Pepi, who has died aged 87, could spot a fake “Modigliani” hanging on a gallery wall or a dubious sculpture and he was never afraid to call them out.

When the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa staged a Modigliani blockbuster in 2017, Pepi was quick to raise doubts about a dozen of the paintings on show. The Genoa prosecutor’s office eventually ordered the show to close early and the scandal sparked a criminal investigation. He was also the first to denounce as fakes the “Modigliani heads” recovered in 1984 from a canal in Italy.

Pepi was unimpressed by the competing organizations that authenticate the Italian artist’s work. He even resigned from one, the Legal Archives of Modigliani, which he had helped establish, over a possible fake.

The fearless scholar left behind two villas filled with around 2,000 works of Italian art and his vast archive, which a foundation now plans to preserve.

The miles-per-hour wind Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s monumental trowel, Planotis, is designed to withstand. It could be useful information for the sculpture's new owner, so far unnamed, who bought it from the Iowa-based media company behind People magazine.

Argentina became a new home for several high-ranking Nazis who escaped justice. It turns out a work of art looted by one of them did too, turning up in a real-estate advert placed by his heirs.

The portrait of a noblewoman by Vittore Giuseppe Ghislandi, also known as Fra’ Galgario, appears in an image of a villa for sale in the coastal resort of Mar del Plata.

The villa is owned by descendants of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial adviser to Hitler and Goering who was deeply involved in plundering art and other treasure from their Jewish owners in the 1940s.

The 17th-century painting, which belonged to the Dutch art collector Jacques Goudstikker, was spotted in an image posted on the website of the Argentinian realtor Robles Casas & Campos. Goudstikker's heirs are seeking the work back and possibly another painting.

A daughter of Kadgien told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper: “I don’t know what information you want from me, and I don’t know which painting you’re talking about.”

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2 - A wind sculpture by Yinka Shonibare has arrived in good time for the opening of the Almaty Museum of Arts in September.

3 - The new Art Park at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville has already installed Richard Long's Slate Atlantic in good time for its planned opening on October 1.